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Amory has a very distracting family and will likely be editing erratically until the kids stop being cute.

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Unprotect

Please unprotect the C151A Page as the IP has been unblocked but i'm not gonna vandalise it thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.65.34.100 (talk)

What caused a 5 day delay?

What caused the bot a five day delay in doing this, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perizaad_Zorabian&oldid=839056632 ?Aceing_Winter_Snows_Harsh_Cold (talk) 00:24, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Aceing Winter Snows Harsh Cold: I'm not 100% on exactly why, but as far as I know MusikBot removes the template only after someone edits the page. I think it's because the page in question needs an edit before it will populate the category. If you look around, I think you'll see that's how it works. MusikAnimal might be able to confirm or deny. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 01:21, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yep! It goes off of the category. I hadn't even realized edits were required to repopulate categories (this is a MediaWiki thing, not MusikBot), but it makes sense that it works that way, and that would explain the bot's late arrival. — MusikAnimal ^talk 02:21, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@MusikAnimal: They will refresh on their own but category refreshes are dependent on how busy the system is while running cache refreshes from the job queue. It could happen in an hour or 5 days. A null edit purge on a page will cause it to happen immediately. More at WP:NULLEDIT (Knowledge acquired when working with template maintenance categories and having to wait for them to populate). -- ferret (talk) 11:18, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of Page protection petition

Hi Amorymeltzer, why did you remove my petition? That was not very helpful, since it has not even been declined, just removed. Also, I have seen a temporary Full protection template for less in that very article. The article is subject to continuous irregular editing, so I request again to consider my request. Thanks Iñaki LL (talk) 22:20, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Iñaki LL: I'm not sure why you think I did anything, but you'll notice that your request was certainly not removed. It was moved by a bot to the bottom of the list, because that is where new entries go. It is still there. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 00:29, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

O, I did not notice it had been taken to the bottom. The last time I saw the tag on top of the article, I think the decision was pretty quick. Anyways, sorry for the mistake. Regards Iñaki LL (talk) 15:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Conflict of interest

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

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Manzoor Pashteen

@Amorymeltzer, Demands of the movement are very important as without them PTM movement will be sense less. Would you please help us to write it in more professional way as by simply deleting them will make the article a dump one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.30.137.63 (talk) 07:23, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That page was protected for disruptive editing, but you are free to make an edit request on the talkpage. If you are interested in writing about the movement itself, you can edit Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, but please read Wikipedia:Neutral point of view beforehand. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 11:20, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2018-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [1]

Problems

The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [2]

Changes later this week

The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [4][5]

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16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Kirby Page Protection

Hey, Amorymeltzer! This is zfJames! I wanted to let you know that the page Kirby (character) seems to be experiencing persistent vandalism even after temporary protection and it may be a candidate for a longer protection scheme. Let me know if you have any thoughts on that... I wanted to get your opinion instead of just posting it to another board so that I could learn more about the level of vandalism required before page protection should be requested (if that made any sense). Thanks! - zfJames Please ping me in your reply on this page (chat page , contribs) 20:18, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up — I've gone and protected it for three months, 'til August. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 20:46, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ass cancer listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Ass cancer. Since you had some involvement with the Ass cancer redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 02:37, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style

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Request to restore move protection

When you protected Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous, you removed the move protection on the page. Can you restore the move protection so that only admins can move it? Thanks, — MRD2014 ^Talk 11:52, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thanks for the catch! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 13:05, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion

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List of botanical cryptids

Amory, would you mind backing out of your closure of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 May 4#List of botanical crypids and relisting? I don't think keeping the redirect as-is is a good idea and I wish to weigh in on the matter. Thanks, -- Tavix ^(talk) 20:34, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]