User talk:Gonzo fan2007/Archive 2023

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

  Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

  Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

  Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

  Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

  Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

  Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

  Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

  Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
• Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

  Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

  Arbitration

• Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
• The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
• A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

  Miscellaneous

• The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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  Done « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:52, 31 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Was such a merger discussed any place? I'm curious because I'm not sure it's a prudent move to merge the two topics together. That was a large dump of content from the one article into the other, and I would think such a move would be discussed first. I mean, I could be convinced that it's the right thing to do, but I don't see any prior discussion. I'd be tempted at this precise moment to revert the merger per WP:BRD. Imzadi 1979 → 02:59, 4 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi Imzadi1979, you are 100% correct, it was a bold merge. I weighed that versus AFD and considered the likely result of an AFD would be a merge anyway. The Fan HoF is part of the bigger Packers HoF, the list of fans are all people who are not notable and right down to it, it is basically a corporate contest. All that said, I obviously would not stand in the way of any reversion and would happily take part in any discussion about the topic. If you do choose that route, WP:NFL may be a good place for the discussion. Wherever it ends up, if you do start the discussion, please send me a link. Thanks! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:27, 4 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

On an unrelated note, I noticed your user page and fandom of the Packers. If you ever want to collaborate on an article in the WP:PACKERS-area please let me know! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:40, 4 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

  Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

  Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

  Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

  Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

  Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

  Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

  Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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  Done « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:02, 22 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

  Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

  Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

  Arbitration

• 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.

  Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

  Administrator changes

  Novem Linguae

 

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

  Bureaucrat changes

  MBisanz

  Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

  Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

  Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

Please undelete Matthew Clayton Flynn - as a general rule admin's assertions that a redirect is unlikely is not a valid speedy deletion criterion, and besides it seems like a perfectly reasonable search term to me. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 13:15, 27 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

  Done « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:27, 27 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

  Administrator changes

  Firefangledfeathers

 

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

  Interface administrator changes

  Novem Linguae

  Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

  Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Was the 2008 CSD#A7 for a basketball player (Ray Hall (basketball)?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:33, 30 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

TonyTheTiger no, all the article said was "Ray Hall is the Academy Manager for Everton F.C.". « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 03:45, 30 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thx.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:26, 30 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

  Guideline and policy news

• 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.

  Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

  Arbitration

• 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.

  Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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•   Done. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:13, 6 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Ok. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:24, 6 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

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I do want to ask, what makes you think the game on September 10 to be not that notable? I feel like it should be that notable since it was Jordan Love's first start against the Bears and his first game as a full time starter in replacement of Aaron Rodgers who dominated the Bears in his years against the Packers and Love absolutely dominated them. I mean yes the game wasn't that exciting and wasn't that close but the fact that Love did absolutely well in his first start against the Bears should be notable itself. I mean as a Bears fan myself I can consider that game to be notable because of how well Love did in his first start. Chicagosports2004 (talk) 15:14, 19 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi Chicagosports2004, admittedly, these decisions are sometimes challenging unless the notability of the game is blatantly obvious (Instant Replay Game, a playoff game, etc). When I looked at the Bears–Packers rivalry, we are talking 100+ years, 200+ games, thousands of players, etc. So I ask myself, in 5 years, in 20 year, in 100 years, will this game still be remembered? There is definitely a storyline there (as you said, Rodgers to Love, Love's first start. etc), however, that storyline suffers strongly from recentism. Who knows how Love will do? Who knows if this game is the start of another Hall of Fame career. At this point, the game was a fairly standard week 1 match-up where one team beat the other by a lot of points. The game was only talked about in the news for a few days and then it moved on to coverage of each team's week 2 match-ups/results.

All that said, that page suffers a lot from being too detailed with "notable games". I just don't have the time to clean it up, but I do have the time to try to prevent every match-up from being added. Hope that helps you understand my thinking. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 17:19, 19 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

  Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

  Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

  Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

  Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:02, 16 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Jordan Love you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of HickoryOughtShirt?4 -- HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 20:21, 23 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

How come you closed the GA discussion for the Bath City FC article? Krashaon19 (talk) 16:49, 26 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

The nominator hasn't edited on Wikipedia for 45 days. It can be quickly re-nominated by that editor or another editor, if they are willing to manage the process. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:22, 26 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Okay thanks, just wasn't sure :) Krashaon19 (talk) 19:06, 26 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

  Administrator changes

  0xDeadbeef

  Tamzin

  Dennis Brown

  Interface administrator changes

  Pppery

 

• Ragesoss
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  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

  Arbitration

• 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.

  Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

  Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

  Arbitration

• 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.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

Valereee (talk) 00:02, 11 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

So I get that my edits were "unnecessary", but take a look at the other rivalry pages for formatting (for example Raiders Seahawks when they were division rivals before). I would like to at least keep the notes that were did put in, like Super Bowl wins and what not. Demrep (talk) 22:35, 11 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi Demrep. Your edits did the following things:

• Removed accessibility features for screen readers to better read tables (the "scope=" parts, see MOS:ACCESS and MOS:TABLE for more)
• Removed the column width percentages, which make all the different tables have wildly varying widths (looks cleaner and more professional this way)
• You also included factual errors, like changing the record from 2-0 to 3-0 in 1978.
• Applied color schemes that were inconsistent from table to table.

I know other rivalry pages do things differently, but that doesn't make it right or wrong. WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS isn't a great argument for why something should be one way or the other. I'm not sure what you mean by the notes, but I did try to go back and retain things that were beneficial. If there is something that I accidentally reverted, please feel free to put it back in. But please, in the future, use edit summaries so people know what you are changing. And generally any new, large changes (like applying color schemes differently) should go to the talk page first. Also, just a friendly note and not 100% sure if this is relevant to you or not, but please remember that editing as an IP and then editing while logged in can be construed as socking. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 00:31, 12 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hey, fair enough. But as a heads up, there will be others that will probably look at the formatting, especially the notes section with the align=left stuff and will probably try to change them as well. But yeah, I'll stick to notes at this point since you draw a hard line there with the WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS portion. Demrep (talk) 01:28, 12 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

With respect, it was implemented site wide and remains so. Somewhere on the order of more than 100,000 uses of placeholder images have been removed from the project when that was implemented. I've done just a tiny fraction of those. It's common practice to not use them. Please see the top of Category:Wikipedia image placeholders where it says "The use of these placeholders is deprecated. Many editors objected to their appearance, though some felt that they worked for the intended purpose.". Please see the top of Wikipedia:Image placeholders where it says "Image placeholders were formerly used on Wikipedia for biographies of living persons but have since been deprecated. As of 2020 all placeholder images have been removed from the main namespace.". There's been various WP:AN/I discussions as well that I could link to if you like. Bottom line, their use is deprecated on en.wiki. --Hammersoft (talk) 01:01, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

**thumbs up emoji** « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 01:30, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks WikiOriginal-9 :) « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:47, 16 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 17 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

I found in interesting that you posted a welcome message to the user that made the very first edit to Wikipedia, eighteen years before your message. Was this made by some sort of automated script? JIP | Talk 22:25, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

JIP, the drafting of welcome messages is a part of WP:TWINKLE. The message was ironic, as you can see from my edit summary "welcome! lol". « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:41, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

  Hello! Your submission of Al Treml at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! —Bagumba (talk) 08:27, 21 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article William Brault you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Kaiser matias -- Kaiser matias (talk) 00:42, 22 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

The article William Brault you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold  . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:William Brault and Talk:William Brault/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Kaiser matias -- Kaiser matias (talk) 16:22, 23 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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The article William Brault you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:William Brault for comments about the article, and Talk:William Brault/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Kaiser matias -- Kaiser matias (talk) 21:43, 26 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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