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Question from These events occurred (09:51, 5 June 2025)
[edit]Where should I discuss changing the photo or changing something? --These events occurred (talk) 09:51, 5 June 2025 (UTC)
- What image do you want to change and why? voorts (talk/contributions) 12:28, 5 June 2025 (UTC)
Discussion at WP:MCQ § File:William Russell.png
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You are invited to join the discussion at WP:MCQ § File:William Russell.png. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:36, 5 June 2025 (UTC)
June 11: Virtual NYC WikiWednesday
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Question from Missclairedee (15:55, 6 June 2025)
[edit]Hi! I've donated to wiki for years but have never posted or edited anything. I'm wanting to make an article for my father's band that was locally famous in the 1980's and even flew to Hollywood and was on Star Search. I'm using old newspapers as references but it keeps getting declined. I'm not sure what I need to do. --Missclairedee (talk) 15:55, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Missclairedee: your draft is being declined for a couple of reasons. First, each paragraph needs at least one citation that verifies the information in that paragraph. Second, for a Wikipedia article to be published, it must be about a subject that has received independent coverage in several sources. Currently, you've only cited one newspaper article and a brief obituary written by family members that only mentions the band in passing. If you can find additional newspaper articles from other publications, then you may be able to show that the band is notable enough to have its own article. If it isn't, I would encourage you to find somewhere else to publish about your father's band; perhaps a local Charlotte music blog would be interested. Best, voorts (talk/contributions) 20:26, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.
Technical news
- A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
- History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.
Arbitration
- An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
- An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in June 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Thanks
[edit]Hi Voorts, just to say thank you for all your help on the Gentlemen & Players page; I really appreciate your time and advice. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 10:51, 7 June 2025 (UTC)
- My pleasure. Good work. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:09, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in the May 2025 GAN backlog drive
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The Minor Barnstar | |
| Your noteworthy contribution (6 points total) helped reduce the backlog by more than 190 articles! Here's a token of our appreciation. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 11:14, 7 June 2025 (UTC) |
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Four Award | |
| Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Weird Faith. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:11, 7 June 2025 (UTC) |
Question from Oselumese007 (07:10, 8 June 2025)
[edit]Can I get paid editing? --Oselumese007 (talk) 07:10, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
User Broskalitre
[edit]In doing NPP, I came across Russian Unmanned Systems Forces and Northeast Donetsk Oblast campaign, both of which were created by this now blocked user. When I see that an article is created by a blocked user, I always take a look at their talk page and see why they were blocked. Normally, it doesn't have anything to do with the article's they created, however sometimes it does. In this case, I'm thinking the block might apply to these articles. The first is almost completely the work of this editor, however, the second has seen some significant editing by several other editors. Anyway, as you were the blocking admin, I figured I'd let you know so that you could take any further action you deemed appropriate. And of course, thank you for the work you do on the project. Onel5969 TT me 17:19, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
- Deleted Russian Unmanned Systems Forces per WP:G5. Northeast Donetsk Oblast campaign can't be deleted per WP:G5 because there are "substantial edits by others". voorts (talk/contributions) 17:46, 9 June 2025 (UTC)