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[edit]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Ali_Kasi
Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
Technical news
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
- Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
Article for George John Seaton
[edit]I am Jeorgia O'Brien, the author of the George John Seaton page that you voted to delete. I am reaching out to you so that you may review the new updated article. I am working with Washington University in St. Louis as a student author. Our class if also paired with the Wikipedia Foundation for Education. Our goal is to share the stories of Outcasts who have been forgotten in history. It is important to me that I am able to publish this article so that I can share Seaton's story.
As I have been working on improving the article, there are now over 10 new sources that are all secondary sources and relate to George John Seaton. I have implemented many changes including formatting, word choice, and the removal of any primary source quotes. Please review this article once again. If you have more improvements, you would like me to make, please visit my talk page. I will be happy to continue to make changes. After reviewing the article, if it meets notability requirements then I would love for this article to no longer be flagged for deletion and/or you update the comment you made on the talk page for deletion. I am doing my best to follow Wikipedia's guidelines while also sharing a story of a man who should be remembered.
Best, Jeorgiaobrien (talk) 03:27, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Jeorgiaobrien: - thanks for getting back to me, and especially thanks for taking such a collaborative approach. Wikipedia is by its nature a joint effort, so working with other editors is vital and you are certainly showing a willingness to do that. I see that you have also put this response in the Deletion discussion, so that all the editors can see the update - that is the right way to go about it and I will respond there.
- On a personal level, I commiserate with the difficulty that comes from having only sparse supporting documentation - albeit in a slightly different field. In my case, I like to write about people who have made significant scientific contributions. Unfortunately, there has been a culture in the scientific community that actively discouraged people from getting any publicity. This has meant that sometimes people were not considered notable at all, until suddenly they were because they won a Nobel prize or similar. But the people who came second and third that year, who have made contributions of a similar level, still don't get an article. Frustrating. And you will face a very similar difficulty with your aim to "share the stories of Outcasts who have been forgotten in history" - Wikipedia is a place that reflects what has already been written about the subject, so if they are "forgotten in history" then there may be very little to work with.--Gronk Oz (talk) 04:40, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I appreciate your help and willingness to respond.
- I am thankful people are willing to highlight forgotten names in science. I saw on your home page that you retired from software computing. I am a mechanical engineering major and I also enjoy science and mathematics. As a female in STEM, I greatly sympathize with the women in history who’s contributions to science have never been recorded. In fact, my cat is named Rosalind after Rosalind Franklin. She goes by “Roz” for short. Luckily for Franklin, she was rightfully credited for her discovery after her death.
- Again, thank you for getting back to me and continuing to improve the history or scientific figures.
- Best Jeorgiaobrien (talk) 15:14, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Question
[edit]Hello, relatively new to Wikipedia but learning and only getting better. Thank you for your contributions and willingness to help out new users. I would like to ask you a question to understand what a barnstar is and how or why are they given. Many thanks. Articlread (talk) 03:24, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Articlread - G'day. Editing Wikipedia is often a thankless task, so editors decided it would be good to encourage one another. A "barnstar" is just a positive message - it might be a thanks for something specific, or just a general "well done". They are often formatted with something fun like a picture of a plate of biscuits, etc. If you want to see a small selection, I have saved the ones sent to me at User:Gronk_Oz/Awards#Barnstars,_cookies_etc..
- If you want to acknowledge somebody - go ahead! The full instructions at at WP:BARNSTAR, but the simplest version is just to edit that person's User Talk page and add something like {{subst:User Barnstar|reason=for being awesome!}}.
- I hope that makes sense - please get back to me if you have any questions. Gronk Oz (talk) 03:55, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
Technical news
- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
Pinchedloaf
[edit]I've seen this before, so I've opened Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kojavak, FYI. Jasper Deng (talk) 07:32, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Jasper Deng: Thanks for that. I have added my two cents' worth there.--Gronk Oz (talk) 07:52, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
- The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.
Miscellaneous
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!
Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).
Administrator changes
Technical news
- Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
Miscellaneous
- The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more
UFO 50
[edit]Hello! Thanks for making the UFO 50 article! I added some stuff from the draft I made about a month back; I hope you don't mind. Feel free to take a look and change anything that looks off; I'm a complete wikipedia newbie. :)
I know the game list table may seem like too much information, but the truth is us UFO 50 fans have been using it to quickly locate games by genre or multiplayer type, so I humbly request you don't remove it if at all possible.
Thanks again! <3 Weltall Zero (talk) 10:16, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, Weltall Zero. I think you have the wrong person: I did not create that article - that was Gisrhgver. I just made some very minor copy-edits to it.--Gronk Oz (talk) 10:36, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oh, whoops! Never mind then, sorry about that. :) Weltall Zero (talk) 13:00, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
Technical news
- Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
- Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ