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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

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

Administrator changes

AustralianRupert • Cimon Avaro • Euryalus • Jehochman • Nunh-huh

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Bureaucrat changes

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Interface administrator changes

Evad37 • Galobtter

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Guideline and policy news

• The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
• The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

• Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
• The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
• A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:02, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Help page protection

Seems like protecting the Help page for two weeks is pretty long time? It's supposed to be available to brand new users after all. Maybe you can block the offending IPs for a couple days instead, or something? Herostratus (talk) 18:20, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi Herostratus, I'm afraid if that was an option, a checkuser would already have done so. If it wasn't the Help Desk, I would have chosen a longer duration in the range of months. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:34, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Nah. Herostratus, you're correct. I've looked through the history of the page again and semi-protection doesn't really work for it indeed. The amount of disruption is too small compared to the amount of helpful questions that would be prevented by it as well. Most of the edits that led to revision deletion are unrelated to the sockpuppeteer, so what seems to be high-frequency sockpuppetry first is just a few sock edits mixed with clueless publication of private data et cetera. Thanks for pointing this out. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:50, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Yay teamwork! Herostratus (talk) 18:59, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Sundhi

You have protected this page if a full of wrong info I belong to sundhi/soundik In this page it’s Mis leaded sunri with sundhi both are diffrent. Remove word Dalit and scheduled caste in West Bengal. Even the supportive document of West Bengal talk about sunri not sundhi 2405:201:1007:A0B0:5527:3D57:9492:DDAE (talk) 07:43, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi 2405:201:1007:A0B0:5527:3D57:9492:DDAE, you may like to propose changes on the talk page of the article, Talk:Sundhi. If you are certain that someone will implement a specific edit for you, please click here to submit a formal edit request. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 07:51, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Linde vandal

Since the block on 1.38.216.0/21 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · block user · block log) has expired they are back on that range again. FDW777 (talk) 08:15, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the reblock. FDW777 (talk) 08:45, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

No problem, thank you for the notification, FDW777! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:05, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

 Erledigt :) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:05, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Looking at List of the largest software companies (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) they appear to have been active there as well using 2409:4040:E82:F682:288B:488F:3A69:291E (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and 2409:4040:E87:3291:204E:1F96:C820:5A69 (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). FDW777 (talk) 09:18, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

hinzufügen 2409:4040:D9B:4931:249D:F44E:7B62:5362 (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) to the list. FDW777 (talk) 15:48, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Hmm hmm, okay. Two blocked. 2409:4040:E82:F682:288B:488F:3A69:291E is stale and unlikely to return. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:41, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. If you have a minute could you take a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cypriot Chauvinist please? All you need to do is compare the content of a new draft with a deleted one (ignoring some cosmetic tidying up someone else did). FDW777 (talk) 19:43, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Done as well, thanks for the report ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:58, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. In future I wouldn't waste time preventing any drafts from creation like Operation Gronthos, as Draft:Rangers (Cyprus), Draft:Mountain Raiders Cyprus (LOK), Draft:Mountain Raiders Squadron (Cyprus), Draft:LOK (Cyprus), Draft:LOK, Cypriot Special Forces Groups, Draft:LOK show they try and create the same draft at different places to avoid detection (while remaining completely oblivious as to how they are being detected so quickly). FDW777 (talk) 20:09, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Ah, oh. Okay. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:14, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Rollback Power Abuser, Please Mediate

Dear ToBeFree I noticed you grant Rollback privileges to users. I am not interested in having them but must say that some of the people that have this authority do abuse it, like Barry Wom. Today and I can see in history he has some alternate interest in the article I have been working on and in the area that I am specializing in, I am an attorney as well however I only appear in US Federal Courts on my own behalf, to write Amicus briefs for friends and experts in several areas, then I have my own life and my fight for the indigenous people of South America to possess equal rights and respect in the law. When I write, I write with passion for the topic I am writing about, always in GOOD FAITH, with references and in accordance with the Honor Code which is a must because I am a colonel. I do not like being bullied, broadsided and told that I am wrong about something that I know everything about; either does anyone else. Wikipedia is not a place for abusive or incorrect fanatical stuff or ignorance. User_talk:Barry_Wom#Types_of_chocolate maybe you will weigh in, maybe not, but really having Good Faith edits that you know should be there has upset me greatly today, and Wikipedia is not about that it is about What I Know and the Creative Commons, with people in authority like Barry is a huge deterrent to people like me and the other editors that he has reverted or rolled back their work in this article. Not enough people believe in Freedom for everyone or telling the truth, but I do. Thanks for reading my message and sorry for the rant against Barry, I hope I don't piss you off about what I wrote on his page; he is probably a pretty nice person but really I don't want to know him. Problemsmith (talk) 21:25, 4 February 2022 (UTC)