User talk:Anarchyte/Archive 17

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

Administrator changes

added

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

removed

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

readded

• Barkeep49
• Izno

removed

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

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

Hi Anarchyte,

I am a new editor who started editing on Wikipedia quite recently. Unfortunately, one of the pages I was editing has been deleted recently. The page belonged to an acquaintance of mine who does not understand the technicalities of editing content here on Wikipedia. Hence I was helping him out in updating details onto the page which had a lot of missing information. And now the whole page has been deleted which I am still trying to understand as to why. I created a new Wiki page for a book of his by the name "Devara Colony" and added it to the Bibliography section of the individual. The reason was not very comprehensible to me on the deletion of both these pages. While reading the reason, I was guided to a list who can help me with getting the page back on and your name was on that list too. Can you please help me with the procedure to get the deleted page back on?

Here is the link to the page that was deleted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrashekar_Bandiyappa

Also please let me know what exactly went wrong with this page & what needs to be done to avoid this?

Looking forward to hearing from you as soon as I can.

```` AGga426 (talk) 14:33, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi AGga426. Chandrashekar Bandiyappa was deleted under WP:G11 ("unambiguous advertising or promotion"). However, I am going to restore the article and revert it to a time when it was not written in a promotional manner. I am also going to send it to Articles for Deletion so that its deletion can discussed by the community. Anarchyte (talk) 08:31, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello,

If am correct, you are listed among administrators willing to provide text of deleted pages. The page Ha Khel Sawalyancha has been deleted through AfD. The closer (@Liz) indicated in her closing statement "If an editor wants to create a Redirect from this page title, feel free to do so." I will but I would rather use the numerous sources that had been added to the page, to add them to the target page now, List of Marathi films of 1976, so could you provide me with the text of that deleted page, please? Apparently Liz has no time at the moment (User_talk:Liz#Ha_Khel_Sawalyancha deletion; User_talk:Liz#Ha_Khel_Sawalyancha), that's why I took the liberty to ask you this favour. Thank you. I still think a restoration of the history of the original page/TP would be a good idea but not sure you can do it when you provide the text (even if my intention is to make it a redirect). Thanks a lot in advance. (You can use User:Mushy Yank/Ha Khel Sawalyancha if you wish or any other address that is easy for you) (I redirected the page of the alternative spelling but the sources and content is what I would need, so as not to be forced to search, rewrite and format it all; I have no intention to recreate a standalone page). Best, -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 11:07, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

FWIW, I had actualy another target in mind, Vasant Joglekar. Not that it matters very much. Thanks again. -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 14:37, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

@Mushy Yank: I have created User:Mushy Yank/Ha Khel Sawalyancha as requested. Please note that I only copied and pasted the content; I did not undelete and then move. As such, all attribution is missing and your sandbox should not be moved to mainspace. Anarchyte (talk) 10:06, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Thanks a lot. I'll recreate the page as a Redirect then, although I still do think an undeletion was the right path (but that has nothing to do with you, just mentioning it for the record). Thanks again! -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 10:12, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

readded

• Crisco 1492

removed

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

CheckUser changes

removed Maxim

Oversighter changes

removed 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!

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

added

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

readded

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

removed

• 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

added

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

readded Pppery

CheckUser changes

readded

• 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.

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Slowcore 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 Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 05:06, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

The article Slowcore 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:Slowcore and Talk:Slowcore/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 14:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

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

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

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

• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek , Daniel , Elli , KrakatoaKatie , Liz , Primefac , ScottishFinnishRadish , Theleekycauldron , Worm That Turned .

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

The article Slowcore you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Slowcore for comments about the article, and Talk:Slowcore/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 11:43, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi Anarchyte, I am David, a volunteer from India who is trying to create pages for all sitting MLAs in India for the 29+ states. Our last state is Gujarat and I found that one MLA page Mukesh Patel is protected after a sanction some years ago. Since then he is elected as an MLA. Kindly see if I may be permitted to create a page for him. I have no Conflict Of Interest as I create pages for all party MLAs of all states... thanks and regards, Davidindia (talk) 16:15, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi Davidindia. I have unprotected the page. I note that Mukeshbhai Patel already exists. Are these different people with similar names, or the same person? Anarchyte (talk) 09:03, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. The one you mentioned is another MLA from a different constituency, Olpad, also created by a banned user, but fortunately, the MLA got elected again in 2022. The One I am refering to is from #25 Mahesana constituency. So I may permitted to do it. Still there are a plenty of MLAs with no pages, so no hurry. I can finish the others first. I was going according to a particular order, and found this was locked... Thanks for responding. Much appreciated as the admin who did this is no more an Admin. Best regards! Davidindia (talk) 11:55, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Category:WikiProject Reforming Wikipedia participants has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. * Pppery * <sub>it has begun...</sub> 18:36, 24 January 2025 (UTC)