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			== Contemporary fantasy deletion discussion ==
	== VisualEditor newsletter—December 2014 ==

			== Administrators' newsletter – December 2024 ==
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			] from the past month (November 2024).
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			] '''Interface administrator changes'''
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			] '''CheckUser changes'''
	=== Recent improvements ===
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	Basic support for '''editing tables''' is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid <code>rowspan</code> and <code>colspan</code> elements, instead of trying to repair them.
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			] '''Guideline and policy news'''
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			* Following ], the ] has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the ] within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
			* Following a ], a new speedy deletion criterion, ], has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

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			* Technical volunteers can now register for the ], which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

			] '''Arbitration'''
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			* The arbitration case '']'' (formerly titled '']'') has been closed.
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	== Incorrect photo attribution ==

	Hi Bilby, I don't know that it would bother you, but in this Forbes article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2014/09/17/the-ps4-and-xbox-one-are-already-out-of-date-round-2/
	Your photo is incorrectly credited as "(Photo credit: Misplaced Pages)" instead of to you, directly.] (]) 05:33, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

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			] (]) is wishing you a ] ]! This greeting (and season) promotes ] and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a ], whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow! <br />
	Hello, are you an admin here? I'm asking for your assistance as a 3rd set of eyes on what's happening at ]. Editor Claudio Santoz, who seems to have a poor grasp of English, is editing in material he has interpreted from a primary source, despite the availability of a preferred secondary source. The result is an unreadable shemozzle. Perhaps he should be encouraged to edit the section of Misplaced Pages in his own language? ] (]) 02:45, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

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	It would help if you could repeat what you mentioned earlier ] along with any new info you may have: ] --] (]) 23:40, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

	== Happy New Year! ==

	G'day Sunshine! Trust that you and yours are well and enjoying yourselves, and All the Best for 2015!<br>
	I'm interested by BarossaV's edits, and by my reactions to them. Although I'm not totally comfortable with his slash-and-burn approach, I have to admit that there's a lot of "stuff" on the various rail pages that really does need slashing & burning. Sadly, I'm genuinely ambivalent (i.e. confused) about where "the line" is. Any thoughts / comments / advice / whatever? Cheers, ] (]) 12:18, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

	== ] closed ==

	This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

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	{{Ivmbox\| (i) The community ] are hereby rescinded and are replaced by ], which are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, (a) GamerGate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed.

	(ii) All sanctions in force when this remedy is enacted are endorsed and will become standard discretionary sanctions governed by the standard procedure from the moment of enactment.

	(iii) Notifications issued under Gamergate general sanctions become ] for twelve months from the date of enactment of this remedy, then expire. The log of notifications will remain on the Gamergate general sanction page.

	(iv) All existing and past sanctions and restrictions placed under Gamergate general sanctions will be transcribed by the arbitration clerks in the central discretionary sanctions log.

	(v) Any requests for enforcement that may be open when this remedy is enacted shall proceed, but any remedy that is enacted should be enacted as a discretionary sanction.

	(vi) Administrators who have enforced the Gamergate general sanctions are thanked for their work and asked to continue providing administrative assistance enforcing discretionary sanctions and at ].}}

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	{{Ivmbox\|1=Uninvolved administrators are encouraged to monitor the articles covered by discretionary sanctions in this case to ensure compliance. To assist in this, administrators are reminded that:

	(i) Accounts with a ] may be blocked if they violate the ] or other applicable policy;

	(ii) Accounts whose primary purpose is ], violating the policy on biographies of living persons, or making personal attacks may be blocked indefinitely;

	(iii) There are ] in place to deal with editors who violate the BLP policy;

	(iv) The default position for BLPs, particularly for individuals whose noteworthiness is limited to a particular event or topic, is the ] for personal matters;

	(v) Editors who spread or further publicize existing ] may be blocked;

	(vi) Administrators may act on clear ] with page protections, blocks, or warnings even if they have edited the article themselves or are otherwise involved;

	(vii) Discretionary sanctions permit full and semi-page protections, including use of pending changes where warranted, and – once an editor has ] of sanctions for the topic – any other appropriate remedy may be issued without further warning.

	The Arbitration Committee thanks those administrators who have been helping to enforce the community general sanctions, and thanks, once again, in advance those who help enforce the remedies adopted in this case.}}

	2.1) Any editor subject to a topic-ban in this decision is indefinitely prohibited from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, (a) Gamergate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. These restrictions may be appealed to the Committee only after 12 months have elapsed from the closing of this case.

	4.1) {{userlinks\|NorthBySouthBaranof}} is indefinitely restricted per the ].

	5.1) {{userlinks\|Ryulong}} is indefinitely restricted per the ].

	5.3) {{userlinks\|Ryulong}} is indefinitely banned from the English Language Misplaced Pages. They may request reconsideration of the ban twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.

	6.2) {{userlinks\|TaraInDC}} is admonished for treating Misplaced Pages as if it were a battleground and advised to better conduct themselves.

	7.2) {{userlinks\|Tarc}} is indefinitely restricted per the ].

	7.3) {{userlinks\|Tarc}} is strongly warned that should future misconduct occur in any topic area, he may be banned from the English Misplaced Pages by motion of the Arbitration Committee.

	8.2) {{userlinks\|The Devil's Advocate}} is indefinitely restricted per the ].

	8.3) Subject to ], {{userlinks\|The Devil's Advocate}} is prohibited from making any more than one revert on any one page in any 48-hour period. This applies for all pages on the English Misplaced Pages, except The Devil's Advocate's own user space. This restriction may be appealed to the Committee only after 12 months have elapsed from the closing of this case.

	8.4) Subject to ], {{userlinks\|The Devil's Advocate}} is indefinitely prohibited from editing any administrative or conduct noticeboard (including, not not limited to; AN, AN/I, AN/EW, and AE), except for threads regarding situations that he was directly involved in when they were started. This restriction may be appealed to the Committee only after 12 months have elapsed from the closing of this case.

	8.5) {{userlinks\|The Devil's Advocate}} is strongly warned that should future misconduct occur in any topic area, he may be banned from the English Misplaced Pages by motion of the Arbitration Committee. Further, the committee strongly suggests that The Devil's Advocate refrains from editing contentious topic areas in the future.

	9) {{userlinks\|TheRedPenOfDoom}} is admonished for treating Misplaced Pages as if it were a battleground and advised to better conduct themselves.

	10.1) The Arbitration Committee endorses the community-imposed topic ban preventing {{User\|Tutelary}} from editing under the ]. This ban is converted to an Arbitration Committee-imposed ban. {{userlinks\|Tutelary}} is indefinitely restricted per the ].

	12) The Arbitration Committee endorses the community-imposed topic bans preventing {{User\|ArmyLine}}, {{User\|DungeonSiegeAddict510}}, and {{User\|Xander756}} from editing under the ]. The topic bans for these three editors are converted to indefinite restrictions per the ].

	13) The Arbitration Committee endorses the community-imposed topic ban preventing {{User\|Titanium Dragon}} from editing under ]. This ban is converted to an Arbitration Committee-imposed ban. Titanium Dragon is indefinitely restricted per the ].

	14.1) {{userlinks\|Loganmac}} is indefinitely restricted per the ].

	15) {{userlinks\|Willhesucceed}} is indefinitely restricted per the ].

	18) The Arbitration Committee urges that knowledgeable and non-conflicted users not previously involved in editing GamerGate-related articles, especially GamerGate-related biographies of living people, should carefully review them for adherence to Misplaced Pages policies and address any perceived or discovered deficiencies. This is not a finding that the articles are or are not satisfactory in their present form, but an urging that independent members of the community examine the matter in light of the case.
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	Since the last newsletter, the ] has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted ]. Upcoming plans are posted at the ].

	The Wikimedia Foundation has named ] (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. <mark>There will be weekly '''triage meetings '''which''' will be open to volunteers''' beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at (20:00 UTC).</mark> Tell Vice President of Engineering ], Product Manager ] and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at ] shortly before the meeting begins.

	Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

	=== Recent improvements ===
	The''' new design for VisualEditor''' aligns with MediaWiki's ] as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the ] library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:
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	The '''TemplateData editor''' has been completely re-written to use a different design (]) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor (]). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs (] and ]) and improved usability.

	'''Search and replace''' in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once (]).

	Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace (], ]). If your community would like '''VisualEditor enabled on another namespace''' on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

	=== Looking ahead ===
	The Editing team will soon add '''auto-fill features''' '''for citations'''. The ''']''' takes a ] or ] for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

	We will need editors to help test the '''new design of the special character inserter''', especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact ] if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at ]. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including '''Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh'''. The date for this change has not been determined.

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	== Doubt about deleted page - Thanks in advance ==

	Hello Bilby,
	I am interested in the article Uscreen and noticed you deleted it. I just wanted to confirm with you if the deletion was entirely related to the user who created it, or if the content presents an anomaly or violation; if that is the case maybe I can edit the part that causes the issue.

	The article title is Uscreen and the link is: https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Uscreen&action=edit&redlink=1
	Thanks for your help.

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	:Hi. The article is borderline as to whether or not it could survive a deletion discussion, but it was deleted because the user who created it was previously blocked, and was using a different account to evade their block. Under those circumstances we are required to delete the content. Unfortunately, this then creates a second problem, in that it is difficult to assume that new accounts which recreate the content are independent. - ] (]) 02:55, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

	Thanks for your answer. I understand your point; I am an independent user, I have other contributions but most of them are in spanish; I do not intend to break any Misplaced Pages policy/rule, so I submitted my article for review, I'd rather do this than get blocked. Do you think this is a good way to proceed?

	Thanks again :)
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	:Are you aware of the disclosure requirements for paid editing? My feeling is that the article is not viable, but even if it was, you would need to fully disclose your employer and your relationship with the article subject. - ] (]) 10:14, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

	== Woodson Michel ==

	Why on earth was this page deleted? It had 5 independent sources; all fitting within the scope of notability. So it was created by a banned user. Your removal does more harm to the community than good. I see absolutely nothing wrong with the article. Please restore it or I will. Thanks ] (]) 00:30, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
	:Under ], we should delete articles created by banned or blocked editors if those articles are created in violation of their blocks. In this case, the editor runs a large sock farm to engage in undisclosed paid editing. This is against WP's policies and against the WMF's terms of use, hence my decision to both block the account and to delete the paid work. - ] (]) 00:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
	:I should add that none of the sources were good - of the sources, only two appear to have been independent and non-trivial, and they were minor online publications publishing interviews, which therefore fall into the primary sources category. I can't see anything that would meet the notability requirements. - ] (]) 00:54, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

	Well said; I withdraw my comment. However, it should be noted, that ''had'' I made a substantial edit (G5), I would have maintained my stance. Nevertheless, thank you for your contributions. ] (]) 01:06, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
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