Stewards' noticeboard/Archives/2024-03

De-Adminship on de-wikisource for joergens.mi

I'm referring to: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Joergens.mi#Ihr_Administratorstatus_auf_dewikisource

Here is the reply of our DE-wikisource community according De-Adminship, they grant me thw adminship

https://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource%3ASkriptorium#De-Adminschip

Sincerly --Joergens.mi (talk) 21:27, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

@Joergens.mi: If I understand correctly, you want to retain your rights? EPIC (talk) 21:32, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

@Joergens.mi: Thanks for notifying us! Your sysop rights have not been removed :)

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mistyped username

I mistyped my username. The correct one is Team Darkman. Can you change that please?! Thank you. and also a new picture needs to be uploaded for Nana (rapper) NANA DARKMAN, as the old one is no longer visible. Please allow me access as administrator of this page. In addition, the name Nana as artist must always be written in capital letters. Please change. Team Darkamn (talk) 11:23, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Team Darkamn you may request a new username using this form: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. For help with content pages on our other projects, you will need to follow up on those specific projects. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:11, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you

I wanted to leave a shout out and a thank you to the newly elected stewards who have taken it upon themselves to clear persistent backlogs like the one over at SRG. I think we have elected a great group of new stewards, and I'd like to commend them and the entire steward team for all the time and effort they spend as volunteers for the global Wikimedia movement. Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 20:27, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

+1 on this --Ferien (talk) 21:42, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

+2. This stuff is very time-consuming (something I could never do). SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 00:43, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Problem cross-project user with fraudulent userpage

This userpage (created at Wikimedia 21 November 2023) copies affiliations etc. from User:Aimeabibis, including a claim to be the treasurer of LesSansPages. (Here for example you can see clear evidence that Aimeabibis is an active member of said group; कटासमुला is not even on their list of members.)

The user in question is recently (Feb. 29) blocked at Commons for creating bad categories there and participating in a promotional hoax that Abdel Nasser, head of AlHakawi News and AlAgha Group, won "the" Academy Award in 2023. NOTHERE and etc. HouseOfChange (talk) 18:41, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

I've removed it. — JJMC89 (T·C) 19:13, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

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Global ban discussion reformation

Hello, currently some global ban discussions have become messy quarrels among supporters and opposers.
E.g. Requests for comment/Global ban for Slowking4 (2) and Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2).
This system may need a little reformation, for example, making the discussion tidier by letting users make their comments just on their own paragraphs, like cases in English Wikipedia Arbcoms, which may also made users cooler without directly commenting each other.
I don't know where to put up a discussion for such a proposal, and is it legitimate? Lemonaka (talk) 03:05, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

The global ban system is not great. Stewards tend to not want to wade into these discussions (there is very little upside, as any action is almost certain to upset a group of people, and stewards typically are more behind-the-scenes types than dispute resolutioners). I hope that once the U4C is in place, more of these discussions will move out of the public pillory space and into the private committee space, where they are honestly better suited anyway. In the meantime, it would be nice to have more steward clerking and timely closing of these discussions - I can't personally on the Slowking4 one as I have commented / have opinions on the subject. I'll see what I can do about some of the other open ones. – Ajraddatz (talk) 19:33, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I believed Global ban consensus got by community, enforced by WMF Office or U4C (likely a global arbcom) is better than nowadays messy battlefields Lemonaka (talk) 02:45, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

The global ban system is indeed not great, but is at least there is a discussion, and is better than SRG that usually has virtually no discussion (what I mean: for non-VOA unless there are ongoing abuse from the main account - in that case we soon can have short-time global blocks, issues and abuses should either be handled locally or by formal process like global ban or in the future U4C, and stewards should not break community's self-governance. In particular, being blocked in most or all wikis should not be a reason of global locks, since in most cases the abuse is sufficiently handled by community.) The Matlin case is very similar to Slowking4 case, which is a user blocked in multiple wikis but not home wiki. So ideally, we need a formal discussion before locking the main account. GZWDer (talk) 16:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I kinda prefer it old fashioned. The better way would to have clerks format it, keeping the supports/oppose clean and moving replies to comment section or different section underneath. As long as people keep it civilized, I see no reason to prevent a good arguments. Both of those cases are not black and white, hence they had to be discussed twice. I think this practice is much better and more acceptable for wider community than to have a blind vote or having a body decide where the line that separates the conduct with misconduct exists. Also, I don't think global community bans should be enforced by WMF as mentioned above. Mostly because community is equipped with tools to enforce that, and also because I think there should be clear distinction between WMF ban and community ban. BRP ^ever 16:45, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@BRPever@Ajraddatz Dated back to the time when Poetlister was banned, the global ban notice is just a notice from the Steward discussion. Instead of today's mess, I'd also prefer that old fashioned. Lemonaka (talk) 10:48, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

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