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The Bugle: Issue 223, November 2024

Your Military History Newsletter

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

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Guideline and policy news

Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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Tollen

You said four years ago that you could source this. Do so, or argue at WP:AfD next week. Bearian (talk) 22:17, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reply: Greetings, I do not remember such a statement. On 13 November 2020 I did state I hid the "Description" and "Geography" section that need sourcing. I could not, on an initial search, verify the content. If sourcing can be found the article could be reassessed as "Start-class".

A failed proposal Wikipedia:Notability (Geographic locations) seems to be used as a rationale to create hundreds, if not multiple thousands, of place name locations as possibly a past populated place. I suppose misreading Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features) is possible, especially the part concerning being "supported by multiple reliable independent sources". To some Wikipedia is a gazetteer gives justification regardless of GNG or GEO.

I seem to remember a multitude of California stub articles, created (I believe) possibly by an admin (maybe with a bot aid) and so many were unverified by any source as being a past populated place. Some even showing a spot in the middle of nowhere, with a single GNIS source (2009 I think). Some dictionary stub places might use the single "Ghost Towns of Northern California" source.

A possible previous populated place like Tollen should not exist without sourcing. The camp that thinks notability does not mean what is sourced on an article but that a source exists somewhere in the universe, might have merit "until" notability is questioned. Look at Ramirez, California and Sonora Junction, California. A mentality that Towns, unlike people, don't need to establish notability, only official recognition has been evident.

Some articles using, Ghost Towns of Northern California or California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State might be notable. Articles such as Secret Ravine, California (single source) or Deadwood, Placer County, California (single source) are possibly notable but GNIS has errors which need to be looked at.

The bottomline is that unsourced articles are suspect and if sourcing is not found should be deleted. -- Otr500 (talk) 09:02, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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