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Welcome to the one hundred and ninty second WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 19,208 last month to 19,275 on 8 April 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 221 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,047 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2024 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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12:33, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Range block on corporate web gateway software
Hi,
There is now a block that appears to be a recent addition, on the address range 161.69.0.0/16, that affects even non-anonymous editors. Not sure why I haven't encountered it until today, as the culprit seems to be our company's use of McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service, which has been deployed for quite awhile, and cannot be turned off by end users on their systems.
Since I use all my "good" computers for work-from-home, I am required to have the software installed on those computers, and again: can't be turned off. So if choose to edit (off the company clock, I hasten to add), I now have to resort to my broken-down, tiny-screened, 5-minute-battery life laptop that does not have WGCS installed.
Yes, this is the classic definition of a first-world problem. But still.
Is there any way to have this ban not affect logged-in users? I'm also curious if this only affects my company (AMD), or if it's endemic to any company deploying WGCS. Regards, NapoliRoma (talk) 01:38, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
@NapoliRoma. I understand. I’ve amended the block to enable logged in users to edit. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 12:42, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! --NapoliRoma (talk) 16:39, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty third WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 19,275 last month to 19,335 on 28 April 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 220 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,054 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Elections
This is the month for local elections, Mayoral elections and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. There will be a large number of results articles that need creating or updating. There will also be updates to most of the location articles, with changes to the governess sections and infoboxes. Not to mention the people articles for those standing for election.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The May 2024 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
Looks like they are back [6]. Please see. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 16:17, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
Ah yes. Blocked some time ago. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:48, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. See they are back again [7]. Also the edit summaries are full of abusese and death threats. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 18:17, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Blocked and I’ve hidden the edit summaries. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Looks like he is back with a new ID [8]. If possible please revert and revdel their edits. They also seem to have accepted being sock of User:UserGK23, something which I mentioned here. His edits here are not good faith either, just regular troll business. Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 17:39, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi, you deleted Donovan Slacks as the close of my AFD nomination. I realized that I think it may qualify as the longest hoax in Wikipedia since it, near as I can tell, was always written as if Slacks was a real person and then was modified to be as-if they just happened to make a movie about him (I think that's hoax-y enough?). I'm just asking, if it's available, the date it was originally created and the final byte count of the article? (I don't think that info is available to non-admins.) I doubt showing the article as a subpage there would be useful but that may be my lack of experience there. Thanks! Skynxnex (talk) 13:35, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi. It was created at 18:01, 2 November 2004, and the final byte count (excluding your AFD nomination tag) was 1,478 bytes. -- Malcolmxl5 (talk) 13:53, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Great. Thanks for the quick reply. Skynxnex (talk) 13:54, 7 May 2024 (UTC)