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Section sizes in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard

Section size for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (52 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	961	961
Open tasks	230	230
ZebulonMorn	17,048	17,048
Appeal of my topic ban	3,265	17,672
Comments by uninvolved editors	6,250	6,250
Why I use alts	8,157	8,157
Sander.v.Ginkel unblock request	16,161	16,161
Several admins just standing by interrogating a user who was the subject of an obviously bad block.	21,257	21,257
Tripleye	926	926
History	869	869
Technology	649	649
Impact	503	503
References	30,885	94,455
Broader discussion on reporting users and blocking/unblocking	31,318	63,570
Examples: HJ Mitchell	7,332	7,332
Examples: 331dot	24,920	24,920
Request for closure review	11,370	11,370
Self-requested RM relist review	1,668	1,668
"Early" closes at AfD	19,061	19,061
Question about Wikipedia:General sanctions/Armenia and Azerbaijan	2,414	2,414
Potential paid article writing (or just very bad form) by @Readcircle	1,359	1,359
PayPal Honey edit warring	3,195	3,195
Concern About Vandalism by a New Contributor	1,548	1,548
Supposedly blocked editor appears unblocked	2,376	2,376
subversion	2,574	2,574
Merry Christmas!	884	884
suggestion	2,575	2,575
Is it time to write an official policy on usage of AI?	302	302
Vanished users holding user rights as of 25-12-2024	4,391	4,391
I would like to confess to being a sockpuppet of banned user Grundle2600	2,750	2,750
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ranged weapon	1,387	1,387
Complaint Against Disruptive Editing and Personal Attacks by User:Cerium4B	664	3,987
Summary	754	754
Details of the Issue	30	1,729
1. Disruptive Editing and Personal Attacks	544	544
2. Dismissal of Concerns Regarding Source Reliability	794	794
3. Inappropriate Behavior and Disruptive Editing	361	361
Request for Administrator Action	840	840
Unblock request for [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aman.kumar.goel Aman.kumar.goel] markup removed; cannot link (help)	2,122	2,122
Unproductive discussion probably needs closing	951	951
Page's name blacklisted	4,199	4,199
History/-ies of Kambala Srinivas Rao	1,264	1,264
Bot block request	8,274	8,274
Redaction needed for non-free file	1,485	1,485
Please remove my PCR flag	647	647
philip ingram vs. phillip ingram	906	906
ISA99 Committee	809	809
User BubbleBabis	1,571	1,571
User:Pizermmmmmmm76486 and USERNOCAT	2,574	2,574
User:Redrose64 conduct at VPT	1,919	1,919
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse - draft article about a future film seems to be a long-term draft	7,802	7,802
Request for assistance with semi-protected page edit	652	652
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Section sizes in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

Section size for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (48 sections)
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(Top)	711	711
Disruptive editing and WP:TALKNO by User:AnonMoos	17,018	28,860
None of this matters	8,490	8,490
A Slightly Different Analysis	3,352	3,352
User:ZanderAlbatraz1145 Civility and Content #2	26,636	26,636
User:Glenn103	4,095	4,095
Insults	3,346	5,823
Request for Review of Neutrality and Repeated Actions	2,477	2,477
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Incivility, aspersions, WP:NOTHERE from Cokeandbread	5,491	5,491
Disruptive editing by Dngmin	1,388	1,388
New user creating a lot of new pages	2,330	2,330
197-Countryballs-World	2,166	2,166
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Please revoke TPA from MarkDiBelloBiographer	2,756	2,756
User:KairosJames	915	915
Wikihounding by Awshort	7,265	7,265
User:Iacowriter	3,882	3,882
Disruptive editing and pushing of his own "point of view" by User:Michael Bednarek	11,407	11,407
AUSrogue's behaviour	1,383	1,383
Disruptive reverts and insults by Andmf12	4,903	4,903
Disruptive editing from User:Azar Altman	2,676	2,676
Persistent disruptive category additions by Simbine0	2,178	2,178
Political party affiliation in the United Kingdom	4,338	4,338
User:AstroGuy0	1,733	1,733
Independent eyes needed on Triptane	5,024	5,024
HollywoodShui	7,374	7,374
Request to investigate	3,244	3,244
Navin Ramgoolam	2,262	2,262
User:Remsense	2,525	2,525
Socking vandal/troll back again	935	935
User:Kremoni-ze	1,887	1,887
User:Beach00 and personal attacks	1,195	1,195
Request for user page protection	1,483	1,483
NLT block?	455	455
Help Needed for Move Discussion	1,096	1,096
ip 77.98.111.156	9,548	9,548
CIR, EW and Battleground	2,576	2,576
Repeated unconstructive edits by IP 58.235.154.8	2,069	2,069
Personal attack by Thebrooklynphenom	2,960	2,960
Disruptive IP editor on Christian fundamentalism	2,293	2,293
Disruptive edits on Syria-related articles (mostly regarding flag changes)	1,345	1,345
96.83.255.53	801	801
Socking	1,287	1,287
Undoing my work	389	389
Wendy2024 making legal threats	3,003	3,003
Cross-wiki harassment by User:DarwIn	7,004	7,004
Admitting sockpuppetry	680	680
Total	192,118	192,118

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Significant 100+ edits wiped out from WP:AN

Surprised to show up this morning to find two of my edits deleted from WP:AN, and then found that over 100 edits for multiple editors (including admins) were deleted spanning a block of 16 hours and multiple sections. Seem's like either an oversized-mop was used, or an accident occurred here. TiggerJay (talk) 16:04, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Tiggerjay: That link is not so useful I'm afraid :) SerialNumber54129^{A New Face in Hell} 16:47, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, although I'm not sure a better way, since it was literally every page history entry for a 16 hour period, and the date filter would almost be useless since it spanned into today. TiggerJay (talk) 19:41, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Tiggerjay as per the section above #Edit summaries wiped out, Someone on the oversight team has suppressed a number of revisions. If it was something that had been there for some time then that will have required a lot of revisions to be covered in the suppression. Nthep (talk) 16:55, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wish we could rebase edits so we didn't have to do this, but nobody seems to agree with me. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:37, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Destined to fail on two counts I'm afraid: a) it involves actual change, and b) it's a good idea. SerialNumber54129^{A New Face in Hell} 17:47, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Third count: for huge pages like ANI it's not technically possible with the software as it currently stands. It is technically possible, albeit a total pain, for smaller pages. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:58, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that one from a few days ago (and other similar instances) but that spanned a several minutes and less than a dozen edits, this was many hours and over a hundred different edits. It was just astonishing to see so much blown away that it must have been a mistake, but I guess that is the only choice when something egregious isn't suppressed right away. Given that way most ANI discussions occur its unfortunate that a more selective revdel cannot be used since individual edits don't frequently span other conversations. TiggerJay (talk) 20:28, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Editable archives

It seems that the ANI archive pages (e.g. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1173) have section edit links. This is not normal on archive pages: is it something special to ANI, or a mistake somewhere? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:00, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe {{Administrators' noticeboard navbox all}} can be taught to emit the flag to inhibit that, iff transcluded onto a "subpage" (or "a subpage containing the string 'archive'")? DMacks (talk) 20:43, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That wasn't too hard.[1] Which means I probably broke something as a side-effect. Trouts of various sizes welcome as appropriate. DMacks (talk) 16:01, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's suppressed the edit links, so

Thank you for that. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:05, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Broken code in blue "Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents" box

At the bottom of it:

Closed discussions are usually not archived for at least 24 hours. Routine matters might be archived more quickly; complex or controversial matters should remain longer. Sections inactive for 72 hours are archived automatically by Lowercase sigmabot III. Editors unable to edit here are sent to the /Non-autoconfirmed posts subpage.

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Pretty sure the "|- | class= " etc. bit isn't supposed to be there. -The Bushranger _{One ping only} 04:51, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@The Bushranger: I think I fixed it. Jip Orlando (talk) 17:20, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Wikipedia:REPORT" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Wikipedia:REPORT to the page Wikipedia:Wikipedia only reports what the sources say has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 December 19 § Wikipedia:REPORT until a consensus is reached. 67.209.129.48 (talk) 10:52, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]