News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

Administrator changes

Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 ^{(first RfA to reach WP:300)}

Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

• Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
• A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
• An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news

• LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
• The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

Thanks for your ongoing work to perform deletion sorting at AfD, a task that may not always be noticed by other users, but remains of significant importance. North America1000 20:30, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

How could you look at this AfD and think that there was a policy-based consensus to "keep"?  Can you yourself state a policy-based "Keep" argument?  Unscintillating (talk) 13:05, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Dear Captain Raju Thanks you for your edits to Powai_Bengali_Welfare_Association Can you pl help guide on how to remove the page from being deleted by Wikipedia Administrators - looking forward to your inputs Sneharika23 Sneharika23 (talk) 16:20, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Films based upon the theme of blackmail have been made, such as the 1929 film Blackmail. Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Blackmail Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Genocide Convention • Search algorithm Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 August 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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Hi Friend,

Kindly guide me in rewriting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deeksha so that it can be live always.

Looking forward for your reply. Thanks a lot in advance

Regards
Wikipedian2017 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikipedian2017 (talk • contribs) 05:19, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello Captain Raju,

I am Ridhi Mehra and just published an article about my label "Ridhi Mehra". I have been in this space for a long time and have added all my information.

Kindly help in setting up this page.

Regards, Ridhi Mehra — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ridhi Mehra (talk • contribs) 09:19, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Captain Raju, I've replied here, up to you if you want to add anything to that, cheers Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:31, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi. I'm not sure you should have closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2017 North Korea crisis as a "speedy keep." As WP:SK#NOT specifically cautions against, you seem to have confused WP:SNOW with a speedy keep rationale. The nomination met none of criteria in WP:SKCRIT. I'm pinging the nominator @Shirt58: in case he wishes to weigh in, but as someone else who also attempts non-admin closes, I wanted to flag this, as we need to make sure we don't misuse our ability as non-admins to close Afds early. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:25, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks @Shirt58: in case he wishes to weigh in, but as someone else who also attempts non-admin closes, I wanted to flag this, as we need to make sure we don't misuse our ability as non-admins to close Afds early. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:25, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks @Shawn in Montreal:. I said my piece at the AFD. Vox populi, vox dei: it was clear that I took a far too narrow view about the article title. I have no problems with the close, and I think the nominator - ie: me - should be censured for their lack of clear thinking. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 12:46, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello! While I appreciate your efforts in creating stub-class articles about films, before creating new stub categories and templates, please follow the procedures at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. Stub categories should not be created, unless there are at least 60 articles for a particular template, and new templates are usually unnecessary, if one already exists in the same genre. So instead of creating new ones for just one or two articles, please check the List of stub types, or under Category:Stub categories, to make sure that your proposed new stub does not already exist. Thanks! Fortdj33 (talk) 19:07, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

An automobile engine is an example of an intermediate good, and is used in the production of the final good, the assembled automobile. Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Intermediate good Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Blackmail • Genocide Convention Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 August 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Thanks for all the work you do updating AfD pages with notices. Much appreciated by so many. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:11, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for always tagging the AfD pages! And your other substantial contributions.

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How did you decide that Evolution Tour should redirect to Evolution (Sabrina Carpenter album)? --Jax 0677 (talk) 16:09, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

I've seen you editing for a while, and I've just realised you have the same username as a real person (Captain Raju). You might want to read WP:REALNAME. StAnselm (talk) 07:11, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

East Germany erected the Berlin Wall to prevent emigration westward. Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Emigration Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Intermediate good • Blackmail Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 August 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Evolution Tour. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Jax 0677 (talk) 19:03, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

I saw more of the number of redirect to Evolution (Sabrina Carpenter album) in afd votes.That's why I've redirected.CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:07, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

• Reply - Effectively, there were two votes for Evolution (Sabrina Carpenter album) and two votes for Sabrina Carpenter, despite the hash tag. --Jax 0677 (talk) 13:42, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi CAPTAIN RAJU! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

• The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
• The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
• The Teahouse new editor help space
• Wikipedia Help pages

-- 22:41, Monday, August 21, 2017 (UTC)

Hi CAPTAIN RAJU! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

• The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
• The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
• The Teahouse new editor help space
• Wikipedia Help pages

-- 22:42, Monday, August 21, 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, I created this profile for making Wikipedia pages of some underground musicans of Pakistan who are famous in small audience and doing good work under less resources and exposure. Please help me in making their pages and please remove your deletion request on Talha Nadeem's page as this is my first page. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talha_Nadeem) Please give me some guidance as well on this, I'll be very thankful to you. Regards, Waleed Amin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PakistaniMusic1 (talk • contribs) 18:28, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

How do I add this article to the Ireland WikiProject deletion alerts page? TIA ww2censor (talk) 21:19, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

@Ww2censor: I've already added Towns in Mayo by population article on Ireland deletion alerts page.see here.CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:00, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Great thanks, but is this something I can do myself or does someone else, like you, have to do it? ww2censor (talk) 22:04, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Wednesday August 30, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday August 30 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 12:03, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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