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Kallista Primary School moved to draftspace

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An article you recently created, Kallista Primary School, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. DMySon 04:29, 1 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Kallista Primary School (June 1)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Kallista Primary School (June 1)

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Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by John from Idegon was: This topic is not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: Generally lower schools are not notable and I see nothing to indicate this one is any different.
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Thank you for the friendly welcome and advice, CupcakePerson13! I really appreciate it! Wiki O'Ryan (talk) 06:08, 3 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

No problem! CupcakePerson13 (talk) 06:18, 3 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Reverting as vandalism

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Équipe de France de football au Championnat d'Europe 2000 moved to draftspace

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An article you recently created, Équipe de France de football au Championnat d'Europe 2000, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. John B123 (talk) 18:59, 7 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Hi CupcakePerson13, thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. I just wanted to mention one thing about changing the spelling of words – it looks like you periodically search for various typos and fix them in all articles where they occur. Usually, this is of course fine, but sometimes the "typo" is in fact not a typo at all, but part of a quoted text. If the spelling "error" (which sometimes is just an old-fashioned spelling) is present in the source, and the source is quoted in the Wikipedia article, the spelling must not be changed. One example of such a mistaken "fix" is here (you can see the source here), another one (where the "error" is part of the title of a publication) is here (source here). Thanks, --bonadea contributions talk 08:58, 8 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Bonadea: Thanks for mentioning it, I'll make sure not to correct the spelling of quoted pieces of info from now! CupcakePerson13 (talk) 09:07, 8 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for helping to improve Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the instructions say to wait until the user edits before reporting the username. A better approach might be to welcome the new user and leave them one of the recommended user name warnings. Cheers, --Deepfriedokra (talk) 09:04, 8 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Hello CupcakePerson13, and welcome to WikiProject Cleanup!
Thank you for joining. We hope to see you around on our main page, which has a big list of articles that need cleanup work.
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PS: Just a little thing I noticed on your user page: how are you a teenager and in generation X at the same time?

@PJvanMill: Yes that was a mistake thanks... I think I forgot what my generation is when I put that there! CupcakePerson13 (talk) 02:04, 9 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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  • Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
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  • The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

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

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

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  • Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
  • Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
  • Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
  • Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
  • Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
  • Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
  • An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

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  • Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
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  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

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  • Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
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  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

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  • 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

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

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  • 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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