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• Vulnerability to misinformation? Vulnerability Cognitive vulnerability Misinformation
  • Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Vulnerability to Political Misinformation
• deradicalization, Inoculation theory, Xi Jinping Thought, Liberal democracy as opposed to Trumpism#Right-wing authoritarian populism

• Lucille B. Buchanan
• https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2666624
• http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/us/politics/hillary-clinton-wall-street-ties.html User:Fred Bauder Talk 19:42, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/business/international/china-economy-data-statistics-inquiry.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/business/dealbook/global-stock-markets.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/us/politics/in-race-defined-by-income-gap-hillary-clintons-wall-street-ties-incite-rivals.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/us/politics/90s-scandals-threaten-to-erode-hillary-clintons-strength-with-women.html
• Xu Yong (photographer) Negatives
• It’s not so much an information war, but a war on information
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Scientific_research&namespace=0
• Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/business/energy-environment/by-2023-a-changed-world-in-energy.html
• Mosquito trap
• Wikipedia:Communicate OER SOO Course
• Oversight policy
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• Roll-up strategy, http://www.americancapital.com/resources/uses_of_financing/rollups/basics/basics.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/23/us/politics/companies-ills-did-not-harm-romneys-firm.html
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/may/30/haiti-gold-mining
  • http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iQ2SuH1RWmiDf088vyEsVYFRfRFQ?docId=6dc13bae738e496a8adaf66950741f94
• edX http://www.edxonline.org/
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  • http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/harvard-and-mit-put-60-million-into-new-platform-for-free-online-courses/36284
• Wikipedia:Requests for comment/COI
• Resolution:Images of identifiable people
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• https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/world/asia/10workers.html
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• MBMadmirer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Social management
  • social management
• Nature Conservancy of Canada
• Tibetan resistance movement
• National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior
• http://www.cis.org/h-2b-guestworkers
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mohamed_Ouda
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Black_maaan
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyages_Hotels_%26_Resorts&action=history

• https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/us/study-shows-danger-of-diesel-exhaust.html
• http://www.marketwatch.com/story/casa-de-maryland-reports-anti-immigrant-group-fair-launches-smear-campaign-against-leading-immigrant-rights-group-casa-de-maryland-2012-02-20
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• User:Anthony Appleyard supposed to know about article history merges.
• Internal repurchase agreement http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/as-regulators-pressed-changes-corzine-pushed-back-and-won/
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I'm not sure what the appropriate way to disambiguate salt lamps (lamps made from salt) from the new SALt lamp article, but salt lamp almost always refers to the former, so I undid your redirect. --Ronz (talk) 17:46, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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You misunderstand

In this edit you show a misunderstanding of Shamus Khan's book. Please read it. User:Fred Bauder Talk 16:40, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

No misunderstanding[edit]

I understand exactly what he meant when I read what he wrote that elitism is earned. I am not a socialist by any means, but the empirical data from the bank and auto bailouts of 2009 onward do not support any such notion of earned elitism. Mr. Bauder, you need to be updated on recent history. User:Noblestats Talk Noblestats (talk) 13:12, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all your involvement in this awesome community knowledge project! Sure noodle (talk) 04:25, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There is an RfC at Template talk:Infobox#RfC: Religion in infoboxes concerning what should be allowed in the religion entry in infoboxes. Please join the discussion and help us to arrive at a consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 22:15, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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It is seriously irresponsible to put up an article that violates WP:NPOV as blatantly as Protests of Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016. I hope that you will add some balance as you continue to build the article.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:20, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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for starting an egregiously POV page, and, when called on it, doubling down with more exceedingly POV editing. You're better than this. I've looked at your edit record, an, really, you're better than this. E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:21, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, thank you for deleting. Could you also delete the alternate spelling link? K.e.coffman (talk) 02:38, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fred, while doing some wikiarchaeology, I found some old edits of a page that you attempted to create as your user page but deleted in January 2004 as "[your] own newbie error". . I have restored the first two edits from the May 2003 dump of the Wikipedia database, so the history is complete – there's no difference between the last imported edit and what was previously the first edit to your user page. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 10:08, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Fred Bauder, Bill 28 (British Columbia) which has been law in Canada since the beginning of August, is an important economics/foreign relations article. It has been in the British Columbia (BC) news almost daily since the Bill’s passage, but it appears Americans journalists are just now starting to discover it.

The law was introduced with the intention of making owned-and-rented-homes affordable for the average locals / squander money and make politicians look good just before elections, depending on one’s point of view. This omnibus Bill was rushed through the BC legislature, and does things like impose a 15% tax on "foreigners", allow the city of Vancouver (BC) to impose a vacancy tax on homes that are not occupied, and establish a fund for the proceeds. There is no doubt in my mind it will have major repercussions both in Canada and abroad for years.

Problem is, I will be going on a long wiki-break soon and will not be able to babysit this article. As it is, I am having trouble just keeping links to current newspaper articles on the talk-page. I am wondering if this is something you have an interest in? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 16:06, 12 December 2016 (UTC)please ping me[reply]

I'll research it and keep an eye on it. I live in a town with similar problems. They rent chicken house on AirBnB in Crestone... User:Fred Bauder Talk 16:09, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I would also appreciate some help on that particular page. There is a recurrent problem of synthesis, original research, and edit warring. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 00:15, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for improving this article. I made a minor change (preceding 'Johnson' with 'President'—see edit summary). In a separate edit I moved the sentence containing "..Johnson attempted no further appearances in public venues.." since that statement is not supported in the cited source. I think that the statement is not strictly true, and should be removed until a proper citation can be found. Since it is such a strong statement, I removed the sentence rather than just replacing the citation with a 'citation needed' tag. I've contributed to the article from time to time, and it is on my watch list, so I will check further on the assertion. There is also the question of what qualifies as a 'public venue', so without a strong with the exact phrase, the sentence should not be included.

While I am here: there has been some discussion on the article talk page about globalization of the article and its current emphasis on the anti-Vietnam War movement inside the U.S. What are your thoughts on that? If there should be two articles, one for inside the U.S., and one for the global movement, then what might be possible article names? — Neonorange (talk) 21:55, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

The article Geophysiology has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Redundant article on a concept completely aligned with Gaia hypothesis. Current content is WP:OR that co-opts other ecological terminology in support of this term. According to Web of Science, only 5 scientific articles have used term "geophysiology" in last 10 years (2 of them in a different context). Propose deletion and WP:REDIR to Gaia hypothesis.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. PLUMBAGO 16:31, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Professional interrogation technique. Since you had some involvement with the Professional interrogation technique redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. BDD (talk) 21:06, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've replied to your post on the talkpage. Whilst I am conscious that you have been here a long time, your contributions to Donald Trump lead me to the conclusion that you may be out of touch with how Wikipedia policy is current applied, particularly in relation to living people. I'm sorry, but in the circumstances I have to ask that you thoroughly read Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons before making any further edits to any pages (including talk pages) that fall within the scope of that policy. WJBscribe (talk) 21:00, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Similarly, there was this editor's creation of Protests against Donald Trump with this remarkable edit [3]. I suggested at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Protests of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 that given that this editor "used Wikipedia to create a highly POV attack article, should he receive some sort of warning or topic ban?" That was a year ago, and a fellow editor thought not. But it might be time to consider a topic ban.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:42, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your comment on Donald Trump talk is a BLP violation and has been deleted. Please do not post that material and those assertions again. The page is under ArbCom sanctions. If you post this again, you will be blocked from editing. This is your only warning. Thanks. SW3 5DL (talk) 21:12, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there Fred. Did you see my post? I linked your name so you should have. - sad to see an admin User:Fred Bauder adding content that requires rev deleting. If an administrator does not respect and or understand wp:policy and guidelines then he should resign. - please consider your position, thanks Govindaharihari (talk) 16:44, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes

Amortias • Deckiller • BU Rob13

Ronnotel • Islander • Chamal N • Isomorphic • Keeper76 • Lord Voldemort • Shereth • Bdesham • Pjacobi

Guideline and policy news

• A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
• AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
• Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
• The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.

Technical news

• A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
• Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
• A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.

Thanks for uploading File:LingFerrariCrash.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:55, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have accounts on both wikinfo/English and wikinfo/m (for French) but the latter no longer recognises my password. I've tried asking for a password reset, but I suspect wikinfo/m is still configured with my bigfoot e-address, which has been non-functional since early 2017 (or thereabouts). Can you help me regain access to my wikinfo/m user page? Urhixidur (talk) 20:06, 29 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Might have to create new accounts. email me with your email address. Going to switch over to wwtrade/wikinfo anyway before two long. I'll create an account for you there. User:Fred Bauder Talk 21:51, 29 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

Administrator changes

TheDJ

Xnuala • CJ • Oldelpaso • Berean Hunter • Jimbo Wales • Andrew c • Karanacs • Modemac • Scott

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
• The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
• An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
• After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

Technical news

• After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
• Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).

Administrator changes

Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim

Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
• Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

Technical news

• You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
• There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
• Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

Miscellaneous

• Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Holy inquisition. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Holy inquisition redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. – Train2104 (t • c) 21:53, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes

Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn

ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
• Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
• An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.

Technical news

• Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.

I don't think the above article needs an indefinite semi-protection given the time that has passed since the original protection (nor am I entirely sure "privacy issues" is a valid protection criterion). Would you mind either going to PC or unprotecting this article? --Izno (talk) 15:35, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This matter has been brought to the attention of the current editors with oversight. I don't remember what the trouble was. User:Fred Bauder Talk 16:13, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There is a note on the talk page that the subject has requested the article cover only her professional life. It was personal information that was oversighted, much (but not all) of which is in the current live version of the article. I'm not aware of any reason from an oversight perspective that would require continued semi-protection, merely continued vigilance. I've not unprotected it myself as I've not looked to see if there are any other reasons. I did happen to spot though that I nominated an earlier version of this article for speedy deletion (as A7) back in 2006! Thryduulf (talk) 20:22, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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• Global branches update
• Spotlight: OCLC Partnership
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This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on (2 RfCs, actually, one less than six months ago and another a year ago). The new RfC is at:

Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC: Allow private schools to be characterized as non-affiliated as well as religious, in infobox?

Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.

The first RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:

• 15 June 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion.

The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".

The second RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:

• 31 December 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion in infoboxes.

The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".

Note: I am informing everyone who commented on the above RfCs, whether they supported or opposed the final consensus. --Guy Macon (talk) 03:10, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes

Happyme22 • Dragons flight

Zad68

Guideline and policy news

• The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.

Technical news

• Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
• A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.

Miscellaneous

• A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
• A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
• Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

Administrator changes

Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 ^{(first RfA to reach WP:300)}

Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

• Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
• A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
• An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news

• LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
• The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

The Wikipedia Library

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Issue 23, June-July 2017

• Library card
• User Group update
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship
• Bytes in brief

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

Administrator changes

Nakon • Scott

Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news

• ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
• Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.

Technical news

• You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
• Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
• In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

• Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

Category:Native American allies of the United States, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides 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. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 18:54, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

Beginning in September 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tool team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing and mitigating things like sockpuppetry, vandalism, and harassment.

The survey should only take 5 minutes, and your individual response will not be made public. This survey will be integral for our team to determine how to better support administrators.

To take the survey sign up here and we will send you a link to the form.

We really appreciate your input!

Please let us know if you wish to opt-out of all massmessage mailings from the Anti-harassment tools team.

For the Anti-harassment tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 20:56, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem

Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
• Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news

• You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration

• Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
• A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

The Wikipedia Library

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Issue 24, August-September 2017

• User Group update
• Global branches update
  • Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
• Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
• Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

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