Chetsford

Invitation to participate in a research

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.

You do not have to be an Administrator to participate.

The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement .

Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

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

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

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.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

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

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

---

• Discuss this newsletter
• Subscribe
• Archive

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:20, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Political marriages in India

Political marriages in India's protection has been upgraded to indefinite extended confirmed level , would you consider removing pending changes protection since it's no longer necessary? Ratnahastin (talk) 03:39, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done Chetsford (talk) 03:52, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

User talk:Tehshakur

Did you forget to actually do the unblock here? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 20:18, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

LOL, I did - thank you! Should be fixed now. Chetsford (talk) 20:52, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Who

Hi, any idea who RodeoReal76164 is?--Bbb23 (talk) 16:02, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

@Bbb23: Possibly a stupid question, but isn't that Daronandon? Polygnotus (talk) 18:46, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

No idea. I suppose I could request a CU. Honestly, I know nothing about the history of this whatever-it-is.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:25, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Oh yes, that's a good point. Now that I read their comments on the Talk page more closely there does seem to be some similarity. Chetsford (talk) 00:42, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

On further examination, Polygnotus, I think you're correct and have filed an SPI here. Chetsford (talk) 03:26, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Some of the word and phrasing use might lead one to believe it is MartinPict or one of its affiliated accounts. Beyond that, I could only speculate. Chetsford (talk) 23:56, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

All this drama on one of the most boring articles on Wikipedia! Polygnotus (talk) 08:05, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Lat Drop AfC

Hello Chetsford,what are the specific issues with my article and how can I address them? SheneganShaw (talk) 02:10, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi SheneganShaw - you have four sources. Two of those appear to be your analysis of YouTube videos. This is problematic from the standpoint of both WP:OR and WP:RS. Your other two sources are offline -- which is totally fine -- but don't contain enough information (i.e. publisher, page number, etc.) by which we could determine, at a minimum, if they're RS, let alone WP:VERIFY their contents or existence. Please also read WP:SIGCOV. Chetsford (talk) 02:14, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

I have two book sources (that do include pages, authors, and titles, I dont see the issue) and two indepth videos by Olympic wrestlers describing and performing the techniques. I don't see how I am outside of the rules or short on reference. The issue also with wrestling techniques is that information about them is much more videod than written, and yet still I found two good literature sources... Ive been trying to publish this for so long, please help me SheneganShaw (talk) 19:18, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi SheneganShaw - you're free to resubmit it if you feel my review was not correct and another editor will be along soon to look at it. Chetsford (talk) 19:35, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards

Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2024! The top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki. Cast your votes here and here respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December 2024. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. MediaWiki message delivery via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:59, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Things

I don't think we need the bit between discussion pivoted and To get back. Polygnotus (talk) 03:33, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Trouble not yourself with worry. Chetsford (talk) 05:58, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

That's the kind of person I am. Polygnotus (talk) 08:43, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Question on Red Square Christmas Market

Excuse me, but how do the warnings on my article make sense? No where do I promote the Christmas market, by that logic any article about any event like that should be considered promoting it. And also it, could you please explain why the sources are unreliable? Viceskeeni2 (talk) 20:07, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

IMO, the first two sentences of the "Stands" section reads like a tourist brochure. Insofar as sources go, Radio Sputnik is on our list of deprecated sources. That said, if you disagree, just remove the tags - no problem. Chetsford (talk) 00:43, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

So I can remove those two on the top of the article if I remove the Radiosputnik article? Viceskeeni2 (talk) 08:10, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Sure, or you can just remove them if you don't think they're valid or whatever. Our policy on deprecated sources is here -- WP:DEPS. You can review it and see if you feel it applies in this case. I'm not the sheriff of Wikipedia. Chetsford (talk) 08:33, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Alright, thanks 👍 Viceskeeni2 (talk) 09:22, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Watford DC line

You declined my RPP request for the above. The offending editor is back with a revert (diff) plus a very childish response on the talkpage discussion. Would you be prepared to revert the page to a stable version then protect? 10mmsocket (talk) 20:21, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

10mmsocket -- I just undid the editor's latest edit. If this happens again, please let me know and I'll address it at the user-level. Chetsford (talk) 20:28, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

You are a fine person. Many thanks. 10mmsocket (talk) 20:29, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Internship and Trainee J1 Visa Program

Hello, in response to the comment left on the sandbox for the titled draft article "Internship and Trainee J1 Visa Program": "Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at J-1 visa instead."

The sections in the main J1 Visa Wikipedia article do not reference directly what the Internship & Trainee Programs are; the linked Wikipedia articles for the words "Internship" and "Trainee" separately reference a general overview of what the terms mean, yet not the specific program considerations and requirements. Meanwhile, another J1 program is linked to it´s own article "Summer Work Travel", specifying the direct requirements of the program, for example. The existing J1 Visa article does not include specific information detailing the Internship & Trainee program, which has many similarities to the Summer Work and Travel program, and should therefore have it´s own article in the same vein.

Keeping all this in mind, please reconsider the possibility of publishing the rejected article.

Thanks. Rafaelegs2024 (talk) 15:32, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi Rafaelegs2024. I'm afraid I don't understand the difference between Internship and Trainee J1 Visa Program and J-1 visa, however, this may be a personal failing. I'll ask someone else to review your draft in short order. Thanks for your patience. Chetsford (talk) 15:45, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Rafaelegs2024 - please see my comment here. Someone should be able to look at this in the near future and remedy any error. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Chetsford (talk) 15:52, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

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

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

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.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

---

• Discuss this newsletter
• Subscribe
• Archive

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:19, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Bern Shanks

On 8 December 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bern Shanks, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a columnist described Bern Shanks as "the most open and accessible state wildlife chief in memory"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bern Shanks. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bern Shanks), 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.

1=Launchballer 00:03, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Stuff

Thanks for the DYK review. In it you said that ... Stuff may be questionably reliable for BLPs ... could you please clarify why you think this? I'm just curious as I haven't heard someone question its reliability before. It might be the largest news media website in the country. ―Panamitsu (talk) 00:36, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Panamitsu - disregard my comment. I had it confused with a different Stuff. Chetsford (talk) 00:41, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Ah, haha. No worries. ―Panamitsu (talk) 00:51, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for December 17

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited 2024 Northeastern United States drone sightings, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page The Hill.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 19:54, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

January 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
On 1 January 2025, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin in hopes of addressing the growing backlog. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Each article review will earn 1 point, while each redirect review will earn 0.2 points. Streak awards will be given out based on consistently hitting point thresholds for each week of the drive. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:52, 18 December 2024 (UTC)