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Article Sheikh Asif

Hello GeneralNotability i want to recreate Article about ( Sheikh Asif) can i recreate it? with your permission.User:HASIM66 (talk)

HASIM66, I can't stop you, but the past versions of the article were pure promotion and I doubt a case can be made for his notability. I also remind you that if you're being paid for your edits, you are required to disclose that. GeneralNotability (talk) 13:53, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
GeneralNotabilityI am not paid for any type of article or any type of edit on wikipedia. Thank you User:HASIM66 (talk)

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Sapedder, acknowledged, I'll have a look tomorrow. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:02, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Reply from Applehornet 🍏

Hi GeneralNotability,

I logged in for the first time in a couple of months and found your message. I’m not sure what that’s about as I made a few small edits and then noticed that a previous user experienced some bullying on this site, which I brought to the attention of a few administrators. This was not, as suggested, a coordination but a coincidence. I was about to make an edit to a page when I noticed the harassment of the previous editor by another. I reported it, that’s all. I hope this satisfies your query.

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The Signpost: 29 November 2021

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One or Two Questions ?

Is the question that I asked of the candidates for ArbCom considered to be one question or two questions? So, may I ask another non-follow-up question? Robert McClenon (talk) 03:55, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Robert McClenon, I would personally consider that two questions, though if it helps, you are permitted to ask a reasonable number of direct follow-up questions after the candidate's answer. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:32, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
I thought it would be two questions, and was ready for that, but thought I would ask, because if I had the remaining privilege, I might as well use it. Thanks. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:44, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, November 2021

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SPI Helper malfunctioning

Hi GeneralNotability, I noticed that, when SPI helper has no tag option selected, it decides to post on their talk page. Could this please be returned to the old behaviour of...doing nothing? --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:05, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

I'm also not entirely keen of the talk page notices and don't recall those being around in this form previously? --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:07, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) @TheSandDoctor: Hmm, not sure these are malfunctions. Tagging user pages is different from leaving talk page notices—if you intend not to leave talk page notices, there is a separate checkbox for block notices you can deselect. On the second question, I think you’re referring to the new {{subst:uw-sockblock}} form versus the old {{subst:SockBlock}}. Personally, I actually prefer the new uw-sockblock template because the old template is actually not visible on the mobile web interface because it uses a {{tmbox}}. Mz7 (talk) 05:45, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
@Mz7: Oh! I figured it had changed and didn't realize the technical reason behind the latter. I retract that part but leaving "none" as the tag should really leave none as the tag and not a generic tag of "An editor has expressed a concern that this account may be a sockpuppet". --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:47, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Ah, I see. Looking through your deletion log, there were a number of cases where the script used that “An editor has expressed a concern…” language on user pages (that we should honestly deprecate from the sockpuppet template at this point). Mz7 (talk) 05:54, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
@Mz7: They were added after I selected "none" as the tag type. --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:56, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
TheSandDoctor, Mz7, ugh, talk page notices, by far the the most error-prone part of spihelper. The expected behavior is that anyone blocked using spihelper will have a sockmasterblock or sockblock template dropped on their talk page if "Add talk page notice when blocking socks" is checked (it is by default). It should never apply the "this editor has expressed a concern..." version of the sockpuppet tag (I, too, do not care for that one bit) and I've never seen it do that...were you doing something unusual when this happened? GeneralNotability (talk) 01:38, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
No, not that I can recall. I know another clerk complained of the same glitch when called out over tagging on a no-tag case…I think Spicy? TheSandDoctor (mobile) (talk) 01:56, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
One scenario where I've seen it happen is when tagging someone as both a master and a sock (i.e. by using the altmaster parameter) – it will insert the correct master template, and the "expressed a concern" one below. Also, +1 for deprecation ...and {{ipsock}} too, while we're at it. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:48, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

removed A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

  • Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
  • The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

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Messy conduct at the SPI

Whatever this argument is, my talk page is not the place for it. The SPI in question is over there, ANI is that way, and AE is in that corner. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:26, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

Hi, I'm writing just in case you're not following every edit made to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gardenofaleph, because you may be confused by what Firefangledfeathers is referring to in their latest comment. I'll ping Blablubbs as well since they appear to be following the case. Please forgive me if you'd rather not discuss this here (or anywhere). I figured it would be worth mentioning, but that doing so on the SPI might look like point scoring.

The issue is that DGG made some rather messy comments while persisting in the belief that you and I are the same editor:[1], [2]. In between those comments, Firefangledfeathers popped in to explain that DGG was mistaken. But instead of simply striking his remarks, DGG deleted one (the one Firefangledfeathers had responded to) and altered the other, making it seem as though he had realized his error on his own and earlier that Firefangledfeathers' remark. The resulting thread makes it seem as though Firefangledfeathers is the one who is confused.

I'll leave it to more experienced editors to judge whether there is a competency issue at play here. I know that DGG has contributed massively to the project over the years, but from what I've seen of their behavior in the R&I topic area, I am more than a little concerned. Generalrelative (talk) 04:49, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

FYI, this is something like the eighth or tenth personal post or ping by Generalrelative to an admin in the past couple of weeks, plus a larger number of talk and noticeboard postings, trying to incite action against users they have crossed swords with. The pattern of this spam is always the same: gladhanding ("please forgive me" above) and concern trolling ("I am more than a little concerned" above) while gently hinting and suggesting that others act as cat's paws on GR's behalf.
One possible reason is that lately several people have started talking more openly and specifically about tag team/coordinated editing and OWNership of many articles by Generalrelative and their partner NightHeron over the past year. When this topic reached the ArbCom talk page, GR opened the current SPI case against the user (GardenofAleph) who brought it up. In comparison to any public evidence (obviously I don't know the private) of coordination between the 2600 IP and GardenofAleph, the evidence of tag teaming, coordination and all other problems alleged by GR is actually an order of magnitude worse against the Generalrelative + NightHeron duo. It has become clear enough at this point that if Generalrelative opens any WP:ANI cases there is a likelihood of a boomerang, which can be avoided by the gladhanded pushing of others to do it on GR's behalf, and the invitation of admins to carry out blocks or other interventions.
This is beyond WP:CANVASS or WP:THREATEN, it is incitement of action by others so as to escape the boomerang risk of doing it oneself. The mass incitement spree is itself a serious toxification of the Wikipedia environment, and is part of an attempt to win a longrunning content dispute in which GeneralRelative's (and Nightheron's) conduct is slowly but surely coming under scrutiny. Attacks on DGG, myself and others are part of the same game plan.
Apart from all this background information, it seems clear that if this DGG business is of any interest to anyone it is Finefangledfeathers' point to raise if he cares. For Generalrelative it just presents a cost free opportunity to try and (have others) neutralize a noticeboard opponent, as their last sentence indicates. Sesquivalent (talk) 05:28, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
GeneralNotability, I apologize for having drawn some of the R&I drama to your doorstep. I've struck the part of my comment above which might be interpreted as "concern trolling". Generalrelative (talk) 07:25, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

If you look at DGG's most recent edit to the SPI page before GR's post here, you can see he corrected this "problem" which may or may not have ever existed in the form alleged. That is, by the time of (or as a result of) Finefangledfeathers' post pinging him, DGG realized his error, made some deletions and posted some retractions to correct himself, and (whether or not the result somehow created the impression FFF was confused, as GR alleges) finally added a reply agreeing that FFF was correct. I am not seeing the dastardly Wikicrime here much less a 3 ping opera. Sesquivalent (talk) 11:39, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

GR, thanks for the ping. I disagree with Sesquivalent's analysis, and did feel a bit out in the cold with my shoes off. I restored DGG's comment; having been presented with only bad options, I went with the action I'd have taken if it were any non-admin editor.
@Sesquivalent: how did you end up finding and joining this conversation? Firefangledfeathers 15:37, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Given that DGG stated you are correct (as of the 04:48 edit just before this thread was posted), what issue is there?
I check GR's posting history from time to time because experience has shown it includes recurring covert attacks on me, and not only me, at various pages. This includes long WP:POLEMICS with explicit psychological speculation (terms include "projection" and "DARVO"), WP:ASPERSIONs by the dozen, in addition to the regularly scheduled programming of noticeboard and talk page campaigns. More recently GR tried to get an admin to block my account by doing the same concern trolling on the guy's user talk page. I am never pinged for those things, just as DGG was not in this thread, so I check periodically to stay in the know. Do you have a problem with my participating here? Because GR certainly seems to be intermeddling in a matter that does not directly concern them, on the off chance it can benefit the rest of the campaigns, and you seem supportive of that.
By the way, DGG has been another target of similar ASPERSIONs by GR. This is just the first time it crosses the threshold of pinging, thread posting and incitement that the higher priority targets have enjoyed. Sesquivalent (talk) 16:12, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
I don't think a full post-mortem on the issue will be helpful, but if you continue to want my detailed analysis, let me know. The short version is that it left my comment without the original context, an issue at the heart of WP:TALK#REPLIED.
GR's is pretty directly concerned here. I don't have any personal problem with your participation here, but it does look like hounding. I don't know enough about your/GR's dispute here to say if your reason for doing so is valid enough to justify following them around, but maybe it will be useful to you to know how your actions appear from the outside. Firefangledfeathers 16:41, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, Firefangledfeathers, for offering your perspective, and apologies once again, GeneralNotability, for trailing drama here which has nothing to do with you. Anyone who is curious to know more about Sesquivalent’s accusations might find it informative to ask them for diffs. This, for instance, is apparently what they’re referring to as an attempt to get an admin to block their account. Another of the admin requests which they appear to be referring to is this query about a Mikemikev sock. Is this "concern trolling" as they allege, or are these good faith attempts to get advice from more experienced editors? Others can decide for themselves if they see the text. Generalrelative (talk) 17:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Your first sentence is exactly what I meant above by "gladhanding", and the post at Blanter's precisely the sort of trolling I had in mind. Start from well poisoning (no matter if the claims are wrong, the poor admin has no way of knowing) and lead up to the musing about the target being soon to be indeffed (always assume the sale). I was not referring to any of your posts about Mikemike or similar blocked LTAs, but to the manipulative behavior similar to the post at Blanter's page, involving other admins (and non admins, talk pages, etc) and trying to incite blocks or bans against your opponents in content disputes after a thread did not go your way. Sesquivalent (talk) 18:00, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
We are all familiar with TALK#REPLIED, as is DGG. What I don't understand is how violating it causes any problem not eliminated by DGG's reply to you (which in any case would be a different problem than what GR alleged, that it made you appear "confused", a concern apparently settled by DGG's reply). Just now I technically violated REPLIED here myself due to an edit conflict with your post, while making some changes prompted by your note on my talk page. But not every technical violation is of equal importance or worth explicating, let alone thread posting and double admin pinging, if it does not cause trouble.
On "hounding", let me mention that GR was recently brought to WP:ANI about just that by another user. GR stated there and elsewhere that they monitor the postings of some users they consider politically unreliable, and intervene (edit war) when unhappy with what the surveillance reveals. Beyond this, GR has done full scale analysis of my entire posting history searching for perfidy to report; apparently no luck so far in getting others to take the bait. Whatever post reading I do in the opposite direction has led to rather little interaction and no edit wars, so this is pretty tame. My purpose in this case was in part to clarify to admins that the SPI case is both retaliatory and an attempt to settle edit disputes by getting users blocked, a practice that ANI or AE actually warned GR's predecessors at R&I to stop, a few months before GR arrived on the scene in 2020. Sesquivalent (talk) 17:44, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
One last reply here and then I'll be denying recognition. Since Sesquivalent persists in leveling accusations without supplying links, here is the ANI report they appear to be referring to. If one takes the time to read my single comment there it will be clear that I said nothing even remotely similar to what they allege. Generalrelative (talk) 18:14, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
"and elsewhere". See here User_talk:Pengortm#A_note_on_hounding,_civil_POV-pushing,_and_edit_warring for example. User notices you seem to be hounding them, and you explain that you do surveil and why. They were not the first or the last. If you deny monitoring my Wikipedia activities in any way, shape or form, it would be good to say so, since by all appearances you have taken a very extensive interest.Sesquivalent (talk) 18:45, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
Not sure where we'd be without your work on SPI helper. Doing it all manually would probably dissuade a lot of people... TheSandDoctor Talk 17:53, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you TheSandDoctor :) GeneralNotability (talk) 03:18, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Heres The Dealio

Gen, I think I'd be right in assuming that HTD has highly dynamic IPs, given the inability of CheckUser to pin down sleepers in the past and their ability to rapidly create socks. Further on from my suggestion, is there really no feasible range block? Sdrqaz (talk) 22:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Sdrqaz, I did see your suggestion, but I do not see a practical rangeblock available at this time. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:21, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49

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  • MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

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  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
  • At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
  • Advanced item The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [3]
  • Advanced item An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [4]

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21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

  • Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (Dark red X symbolN2 3 denied, Blue question mark? 3 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
  • Green checkmarkY Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · Dark red X symbolN2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · Blue question mark? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
  • TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
  • Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

December 2019

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

  • What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
  • What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
  • Will reFill ever get fixed?
  • What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
  • Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-50

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  • There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [5]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

InvestorGoat improvement

Hey! Can you change Line 7 of InvestorGoat from if (mw.config.get('wgPageName').startsWith('Special:CheckUser')) { to if (mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName').startsWith('Special:CheckUser')) {, so that it becomes compatible with other wikis? Thanks! —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 18:05, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Tks4Fish, done, thanks! GeneralNotability (talk) GeneralNotability (talk) 17:41, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

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Sorry about the delay InvalidOS, I'll try to hit this tomorrow. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:12, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Bianbum and Spam: Some Accounts and Sites to Watch

I recommend checking out the presto.news, evidence-based.review, uopeople.review reports on COIBot. There are several more accounts which are likely the same person. The former two sites now redirect to the latter. The EBR site shared a Google Analytics tracking id with giuseppemacario.men at one point. You might also want to add the site in this diff. Finally, two more to be aware of are boyfriendhusband.men and boyfriendhusband.app. The first was added as a mirror wiki. Later, it briefly redirected to the latter. Now, they both redirect to an article on giuseppemacario.men.

Also, I don't know how to suggest these Lerdall edits on Commons for removal, or if that would even be appropriate. I know one of them has unfortunately been cited in scholarly literature a few times. SimoneBilesStan (talk) 02:46, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks SimoneBilesStan. Looks like most of the recently-spammed sites have been blacklisted, and the others haven't been spammed for a while. No idea what to do about Commons, they're rather...loose...about their inclusion criteria. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:12, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51

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Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

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  • Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [6]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

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  • The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
  • Advanced item The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [7]

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Tauqir Sharif's article, COI, possibly more paid editing.

I've been trying to scrub the Tauqir Sharif article since the primary editor AmirahBreen was banned for paid editing. However, now I see another editor is overseeing the article and making corrections similar to Amirah's. The editor had not been active for a few months until the recent ban, and seems to be SPA'ing that article. Furthermore, the editor is adding pictures that were newly uploaded by a username representing the subject. Was wondering what can be done about this? Should it go to COI/N? AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 22:37, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

I also need to ask whether the Upwork paid editing per the ticket request was related to that article and if so, should the Connected Contributor tag be placed on the article talk page? If that's none of our business then let me know. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 22:45, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
AngusWOOF, pretty sure I shouldn't discuss specifics of the ticket, I wouldn't worry about the connected contributor tag, but you can assume anything thy wrote that seems vaguely UPE-like probably is. As for the new editor...have a look at my block log. I've ECP'd the article for a while, too. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:15, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for looking over that article. I mainly wanted to get the references cleaned up as the subject appears to be notable, but I didn't get to get too involved in editing the biography as the subject is quite controversial. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 01:12, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

It looks like some IPs are getting upset about my grouping the citizenship section and HTS capture section under his Syria work. Could you see if it makes sense to retain this section and whether the IPs might be related to the SPA group? AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 08:19, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

AngusWOOF, I will not be getting involved in the content of the article (in order to remain un-INVOLVED). As for the IP...do you even have to ask? Obviously I can't comment from a CU perspective, but based on edit summary style and their area of interest, no doubt that this is them. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:40, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks again. I will try to pass it to GOCE and see if another neutral editor can scrub it, and otherwise wait until March or if other WP's with editors can look at it. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 21:29, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Scripts Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

New scripts New scripts

  • Ahecht:
  • Awesome Aasim:
    • Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
    • Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
  • Caburum:
    • UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
  • Chlod:
  • DaxServer:
    • BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn}}.
  • FlightTime:
  • Jon Harald Søby:
    • diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
    • warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
  • JPxG:
    • PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
    • CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
    • TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
  • Nardog:
    • CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
    • IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
    • TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
  • NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
    • ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
    • CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
    • LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
    • QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
  • Novem Linguae:
    • DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
    • NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
    • UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
    • VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
    • WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
  • P.T.Đ:
  • Qwerfjkl:
    • editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
    • RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
    • talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
  • Rublov:
    • diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
  • Rummskartoffel:
    • auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
    • generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
    • share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
    • show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
  • Tol:
  • Venkat TL:
    • ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
  • Vukky:

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Help request for Soheil Beiraghi article

Hi. Many weeks has passed since Draft:Soheil Beiraghi's article has created, but no one reviewed it yet. Could you do me a favor and take a look at it, or help me to make verification process faster? Thank you. Kabootaremesi (talk) 08:40, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Kabootaremes, I do not do page reviews. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:08, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Error with InvestorGoat

Hi,

I've noticed that in the last week or so the InvestorGoat tool has stopped highlighting CU logs outside the CU interface. Furthermore at around that time the UA matching has stopped working (I can't click on the UAs in grey in the CU tool). The error I get from the console is as follows:

Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: UAParser is not defined

InvestorGoatPrepUAs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CheckUser line 1 > injectedScript:34
jQuery 2
InvestorGoatPrepUAs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CheckUser line 1 > injectedScript:21
<anonymous> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CheckUser line 1 > injectedScript:9

Special:CheckUser line 1 > injectedScript:34:22 Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 11:53, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Dreamy Jazz, thanks for the heads-up. I think I've fixed both - the former was because I was referring to wgCanonicalSpecialPageName on non-special pages (that one lets people on other wikis use the script on their equivalent of Special:CheckUser) and the latter was a boneheaded mistake on my part when adding some new features. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:12, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Both seem to be fixed for me. Thanks. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 14:14, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

User:AmirahBreen

Greetings. You recently blocked this editor for UPE. They still have a bunch of unreviewed articles sitting out there. Should all of them be segregated due to UPE, or do you have a list that you could share from their UpWork account? Thanks. Onel5969 TT me 16:35, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Onel5969, I don't have a list, and tbh even if I did I probably couldn't share it. Anything they've made that is likely to be a UPE target (companies, living people, orgs) and looks even a little suspicious is probably UPE. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:27, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your response, I'll take a look at their remaining articles. Onel5969 TT me 22:42, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

thanks

OMG thank you. I was trying to decide whether I was too involved to just p-block them from editing just the article itself. —valereee (talk) 19:47, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

valereee, happy to be of service. I would have considered a pblock if they had shown the slightest inclination to be here for anything OTHER than AJDaGuru. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:43, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
I've been trying to be kind, but I'm just getting to the end of my rope on it. —valereee (talk) 21:57, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays
Happy holidays GN, and happy new year! DirkJandeGeer (щи) 23:56, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you DirkJandeGeer, and a happy holidays to you and yours too! GeneralNotability (talk) 19:46, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Season's greetings and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! RV (talk) 03:47, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you RAJIVVASUDEV, to you and yours too! GeneralNotability (talk) 19:47, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Greetings

Merry Christmas!

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Did you forget to block?

In Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alexandra Daddario Fan, AVeganKid is  Confirmed and you tagged, but you did not block the account, it remains unblocked. Pikavoom Talk 10:01, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Pikavoom, thank you, I did forget to block. Done. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:11, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, December 2021

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Happy new year

 Have a happy New Year filled with light and magic!

Hi GeneralNotability/Archives/2021, Best wishes that the new year brings peace, prosperity, health and happiness.
Thank you for everything you do for the encyclopedia and this community.

Image: New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Oji, Utagawa Hiroshige, woodcut, 1857

Netherzone (talk) 01:00, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Netherzone (talk) 01:00, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Netherzone, and the same to you and yours! GeneralNotability (talk) 01:02, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
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