User talk:NaomiAmethyst/Archives/2017/May

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2017

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.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:19, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

cluebot

Could you show me how to make an edit-reverting bot?

-Crazy229 Crazy229 (talk) 17:25, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Hi Cobi!

First of all, thanks for your recent work on the article about Blue Whale Game. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_(game)) There are for sure many users with strange intention, Just like the one that previously edited the article.. So how can we guarantee those acts of vandalism do not continue to be realized ? For example, Is your ClueBot instructed to alert every administrator about an article like that ?

Thanks in advance! Be-Impartial (talk) 19:02, 27 May 2017 (UTC)