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Pkbwcgs is currently feeling discouraged about Wikipedia and is taking an off-and-on wikibreak due to loss of motivation. Your help in cheering this user up would be appreciated. They will return when their wikistress has dissipated and their confidence in the wikicommunity has been restored.

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Pkbwcgs is currently experiencing mental health issues, which may affect their Wikipedia editing in various ways. They may have difficulty with: altered perception when making editorial judgements, determining consensus, or reading Wikipedia discussions addressed to them; reduced availability on Wikipedia during times when they experience issues; limited capacity to respond to other Wikipedians via talk page or email messages in a timely fashion, to participate in conflict resolution, or to complete their usual workload of Wikipedia tasks. Thank you for your understanding.

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Hi. It seems that you're using an outdated version of WPCleaner (I released 2.01 a week ago and you're still using 2.0). Normally, running WPCleaner through getdown should ensure that WPCleaner is kept up to date. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 08:48, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, when rescuing sources, please don't add unnecessary newlines, as you did here (and dozens of other instances). They make comparison of the old and new versions more difficult. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:26, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Redrose64: That is not me. The tools is adding the unnecessary lines. There is nothing I can do about that. Pkbwcgs (talk) 17:50, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not blame "the tools"; you are responsible for every edit that you make. If you believe that there is a fault in the tool, please contact whoever provided it. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:21, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article British Rail Class 458 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 Legobot, on behalf of No Great Shaker -- No Great Shaker (talk) 20:01, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
• Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.

Technical news

• A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
  • paid-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
  • checkuser-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.

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The article British Rail Class 458 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:British Rail Class 458 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of No Great Shaker -- No Great Shaker (talk) 17:02, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Pkbwcgs: You may have seen in your watchlist that someone has tried to revert the good article status. As far as I can tell, such action is out of process because my understanding is that any attempt to "delist" an article must be pursued by raising a case at the WP:GAR page. I have undone all of the person's actions and specified GAR as the place to go. If I am wrong then hopefully one of the admins will advise me of the correct course of action. All the best. No Great Shaker (talk) 14:00, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, your recent BRFA (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PkbwcgsBot 17) has been approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux ^Talk 18:29, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello! Your submission of British Rail Class 458 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:08, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 20:27, 5 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent bot approvals request has been Approved. Please see the request page for details. Primefac (talk) 13:56, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Technical news

• In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

Miscellaneous

• Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
• As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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Awaiting an answer to User talk:Frietjes#infobox university MB 00:54, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent BRFA (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PkbwcgsBot 23) has been approved. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 15:13, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Pkbwcgs. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of File:Chinese calendar v1.1.svg, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The file is not corrupt, the display of it is. Thank you. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 07:00, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DeltaQuad: Re-read WP:CSD#F2 - "This applies to files that are corrupt, missing, empty, or that contain superfluous and blatant non-metadata information." The file was missing in this case and it is empty so it meets WP:CSD#F2. Pkbwcgs (talk) 07:04, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The file is not missing, it displays at the bottom of the page and when you go into the original file. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 07:07, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DeltaQuad: So, how can I fix the corrupt display of the file? Pkbwcgs (talk) 07:09, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm assuming if it were reuploaded it might work, otherwise you would need to file a phabricator ticket as i'm not sure what the display issue is. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 07:11, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What is wrong with it? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:15, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Redrose64: The display wasn't showing up correctly in File:Chinese calendar v1.1.svg. Pkbwcgs (talk) 18:19, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you click on "640 × 219 pixels" or one of the other resolutions, you may see a blank white rectangle, probably depending on your browser, browser version, installed fonts, zodiac sign, and phase of the moon. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:57, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonesey95: There is nothing there for me. The file is just completely blank for me. I can't even see a white rectangle. Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:42, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see, The main problem is that it isn't a SVG image at all, it's a raster (binary) image in the form of a <image width="704" height="241" id="XMLID_1_" xlink:href="data:;base64,..." i:knockout="Off" /> element (from which I have omitted the binary data) in an XML wrapper that is pretending to be SVG. The wrapper is using <!DOCTYPE ...> in a manner that librsvg isn't expecting - it contains several <!ENTITY ...> declarations. It's also using a number of elements that simply are not part of the SVG 1.1 specification at all - these include: <imageReplacement>...</imageReplacement>; <slices>...</slices>; <sliceSourceBounds>...</sliceSourceBounds>; <sfw>...</sfw>; <v:sampleDataSets>...</v:sampleDataSets>; <variables>...</variables>; <variableSet>...</variableSet>; <variableSets>...</variableSets>. Remove the DOCTYPE; get rid of everything inside the <metadata>...</metadata> element; also remove the <switch>...</switch> element and everything inside it, including the <image /> element. In fact, you might as well start fresh with a clean sheet. Don't use Adobe Illustrator (see Help:SVG#Image appearance); use proper SVG elements to draw a vector image; stick to what is explicitly described in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) and use nothing else, not even embedded binaries. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:57, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Redrose64: In its current state, what is the correct file format for File:Chinese calendar v1.1.svg. Pkbwcgs (talk) 14:46, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As it stands, nothing. The file is a horrid mixture that is internally inconsistent. I have been able to work out that the binary portion is a base64 encoding of a .PNG file, which certainly isn't SVG as implied by the file extension. You could ask Mkw813 (talk · contribs), who uploaded (and presumably created) the image why it was done that way. If they want it to be a raster image, it needs to be saved as true PNG format, and uploaded with an appropriate extension (PNG or png). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:36, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've redrawn it as a true SVG file, and so it is scalable to any degree. Commons doesn't allow the Arial font, so there are slight differences in the lettering even when displayed at the "native" 704x241. If you need the exact appearance of the original, I have made (but not uploaded) a true PNG file that is a replica. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:32, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for tagging the Noble chiton photo for deletion, it was my first upload and I couldn't work out how to delete it or tag it for deletion, back then the instructions on how to do it didn't make sense! Regards Nickwilso (talk) 04:19, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pkbwcgs, can you please stop by your nomination and take a look at the most recent commentary? I think a new hook will be needed under the circumstances, but you'll know better than I once you've read the information placed there. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:28, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news

• XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

• In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
• Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
• A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

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Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:37, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There's been a new response to you there. Please stop by soon. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:14, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Re this close. Technically, there's nothing stopping an admin from speedy deleting a page that's being discussed at a deletion venue, but apart from cases where deletion is urgent (copyvios or attack pages, for example), that shouldn't be done if there have been valid "keep" !votes in the discussion. I think it's pretty clear how this undermines the consensus process. Additionally, in this particular case the deletion was per WP:G5; this type of deletion is most often done one en masse after the discovery of a sock, so it's almost certain that the admin hadn't noticed the page was at TFD. The best thing to do in such cases is to ask the deleting admin to restore it and possibly leave a note in the discussion. Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 12:11, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
• An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
• An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

• The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
• Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

• The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
• The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

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Hello! Your submission of British Rail Class 458 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 15:34, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It has been over two weeks since you were last pinged here, and you have been editing in the interim. If you wish to continue pursuing this nomination, we need to hear from you on the nomination page very soon. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:34, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry that I didn't read this page more closely before posting the above. I hope things will be better for you soon; if you can get back to us in the near future, that would be great, but we can hold things open for a while longer. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:35, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam¹ • Flyguy649 • Fram² • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe

¹Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

²Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.

• In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

• The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
• The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
• A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

• In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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 — Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This article is really not suitable for GA. I never got anywhere close to finishing it, and there's been no significant work done since. The history more or less stops at 1900 IIRC. -mattbuck (Talk) 12:42, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
• A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration

• Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous

• Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
• The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

  Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

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For your work on Alfred Hancock Witherow.

Stuartyeates (talk) 22:43, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

Bradv • Chetsford • Izno

Floquenbeam • Lectonar

DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous

• A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

• As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

• The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
• The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous

• The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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Hi there I received your notice about speedy deletion of my PDF file NovikovEngine.pdf. That file was referenced in the Media:NovikovEngine.png as a vector graphics version of the file that was useful should anyone which to further edit/refine the figure. The .png format is of low resolution and may be unsuitable for future high-resolution screens. I thought I would clarify those points, since I feel that your speedy deletion was a little zealous. Cheers Jdpipe (talk) 18:40, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Pilning railway station 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 Legobot, on behalf of Pi.1415926535 -- Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:00, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The article Pilning railway station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Pilning railway station for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Pi.1415926535 -- Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:42, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just to explain the recent kerfuffle on the article, the user in question is upset I started an ANI discussion to ban them, which reached consensus to do so. See WP:BKFIP for further details. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:50, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Pkbwcgs: Since you have been nominating many drafts for deletion, I suggest that you look at the drafts that this person has created. These drafts have been sitting around for many years, infact way to long.Catfurball (talk) 16:45, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, re Template:Did you know nominations/Pilning railway station - two trains a week certainly isn't the sparsest service, since both Denton and Reddish South also have two per week - one in each direction. But all of these pale against Teesside Airport with one per week - on Sundays only. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:48, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker)@Redrose64: This is a bit of a rhetorical question (as I know the answer), but why is Teeside Airport station still open? Although for sheer pointlessness, you can't beat Redcar British Steel. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 17:05, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently, if you open a new airport, you need to ensure that there is a rail service, even if people don't want to use it and/or the trains are at inconvenient times. This is why East Midlands Parkway railway station exists. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:06, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.

• The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).

• A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Corrour railway station 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 Legobot, on behalf of Ritchie333 -- Ritchie333 (talk) 12:20, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The article Corrour railway station you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Corrour railway station for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ritchie333 -- Ritchie333 (talk) 17:01, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I want to stress - this is nothing personal - you seem like a keen and enthusiastic editor. However, it's pretty much impossible to just nominate an article for GA without doing extensive work on it first. In the case of Corrour, I would recommend reading one of John McGregor's books, or indeed any book about the West Highland Line generally, to give you an idea of what needs to go in a GA. Simply taking what's already there just doesn't work, as by and large nobody has made a coordinated attempt to pull all the information from various editors together, which is one of the main benefits of a GA. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 17:03, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Pkbwcgs, I've noticed that you have nominated Astrodynamics (2) for deletion

Please go ahead, I initially created it as an in-development version of a new Astrodynamics template. I have since forgotten about that template and your nomination for deletion in my inbox came as a welcome surprise. (haha)

Thanks again, Rebestalic^{[dubious—discuss]} 18:38, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
• Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

• Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Hello! Your submission of Pilning railway station 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:04, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

On 20 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pilning railway station, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that since modernization work in 2016, trains can only call at Pilning railway station when travelling eastbound? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pilning railway station. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, just wanted to more personally thank you for your work. Jerod Lycett (talk) 18:30, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I would like to help out in clearing out the backlog at Category:Pages using deprecated image syntax using AWB but I don't know which regular expression to use. I know that AWB general fixes don't fix the deprecated image syntax problem. Pkbwcgs (talk) 14:41, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You will likely need a large number of regex expressions that will catch multiple issues in a single run. I highly suggest you discuss this further at WT:AWB as you will likely get a lot more help (and advice from others not necessarily watching your talk page). Primefac (talk) 14:53, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what changes need to be made, but it's the only mainspace page that uses it. Given your bot already converted the rest I thought you'd know what changes need done. Jerod Lycett (talk) 02:43, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing; there's nothing wrong with calling a template redirect. There's no harm (and thus no reason) to go changing it. Primefac (talk) 03:42, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Can an admin please add the deletion template for the redirect Mаin Page. My reasoning for deletion is explained at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2020_January_3#Mаin_Page. The talk page of the redirect is fully protected so I can't post an edit request there. Pkbwcgs (talk) 10:09, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 20:36, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please can you again disambiguate Sun Yu and Wang Lin 😐😞 Zoglophie (talk) 18:49, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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		The Redirect Barnstar
		Your diligent work in the area of redirect categorization and improvement is duly recognized and greatly appreciated. You are truly one of the unsung heroes of Wikipedia, and we hope you continue to enjoy your improvement of this awesome encyclopedia! Award given for your keen observation of letters with identical appearance in Cyrillic and Latin scripts that should be deleted. On behalf of your fellow editors and the millions of readers of our encyclopedia, I say thank you. Senator2029 “Talk” 16:50, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:Senator2029, that is really kind of you. Thank you. Pkbwcgs (talk) 16:51, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pkbwcgs,

I found that you are a power user for the counter-vandalism tool STiki. First of all, Kudos! Thank you for help protectin