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Section sizes in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard

Section size for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (31 sections)
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Open tasks	222	222
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Closure request for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive366#IBAN appeal	11,986	11,986
Deleted article question	3,775	3,775
Seeking opinions: protection of the help desk and teahouse	16,624	18,783
Proposal: Ask the WMF to evaluate legal remedies	2,159	2,159
15.ai behavioral issues.	19,286	19,286
Arbitration motions regarding Palestine-Israel articles	5,288	5,288
Change to the CheckUser team, November 2024	516	516
Titleblacklisted page creation request	389	389
InfoWars link	2,472	2,472
Need an RFC closed	1,439	1,439
Abusive message from ip user	947	947
Persistent IDHT and disruptive fabrication of Wikipedia policy	399	399
Unban/unblock request for Albertpda	11,159	11,159
Courtesy un-pblock for deceased user	2,541	2,541
Deacon of Pndapetzim	34,508	34,508
Appeal for Lifting Topic Ban	8,636	8,636
TP:ACEMM not subbing properly	1,549	1,549
Revdel? (Can’t use oversight)	3,810	3,810
Most active administrators	14,103	14,103
Request to Review and Remove "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS"	2,582	2,582
Thanks!	1,418	1,418
User:AnubisIbizu requesting an unblock	4,084	4,084
WickedFanAccount "outing" and digging through my social media	10,305	10,305
Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) § RfC: Enable the mergehistory permission for importers	773	773
Cut-and-paste move and draftification; unclear how to proceed	1,587	1,587
Is WP:RECALL a policy?	34,796	34,796
Notification of a request for transwiki importer rights	378	378
Total	217,413	217,413

Section sizes in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

Section size for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (50 sections)
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(Top)	714	714
Upd Edit - project sock?	6,322	6,322
Wikimicky1, Armenian genocide denial, personal attacks, disregard of Wiki policies, WP:BLOCKEVASION	7,801	7,801
BrocadeRiverPoems behavioral issues	70,785	80,522
The Underlying Content Dispute	3,369	3,369
Sanctioning HackerKnownAs	3,787	3,787
Proposed TBAN of RocketKnightX	2,581	2,581
Croystron failure to communicate	13,854	13,854
I was given an ultimatum for expired awareness notifications markup removed; cannot link (help)	9,475	9,475
Repeated WP:PA Violations by IP 47.69.66.57 (and prior IP addresses)	4,570	4,570
Legal threats	1,098	1,098
SheriffIsInTown POV pushing editing pattern	40,177	40,177
Dispute at Redbox article	4,934	4,934
User:NigelPorter and User:Bjcook; potential COI and/or SOCK	5,918	5,918
"Jolly J" Fennimore making accusations of criminal activity	4,823	4,823
Nigerian name project	9,287	9,287
User:Erobran	5,585	5,585
User:176.113.180.173	5,942	5,942
Ram112313 promoting Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha	3,656	3,656
Isles of Scilly edit war	2,607	2,607
User:Ustadeditor2011	4,198	4,198
Concerns Over Negative Content on Bunq Article and Potential Promotion of N26	9,262	9,262
Reid Kennedy and probably competence problem	2,749	2,749
Violating the five pillars of Wikipedia	9,704	10,628
Propose one-way Interaction Ban between זור987 and Dorian Gray Wild	924	924
Lingayat Vani	1,057	16,168
Infobox	986	986
Lead	2,320	2,320
Origin	4,045	4,045
Varna Status	7,760	7,760
Talk page abuse: User:DARealMrBeast	470	470
EX Centre from Star Avenue 2018	822	822
Revoke talk page access for Clioos	376	376
Creation of (apparent) hoaxes about Indian politics	4,876	4,876
Gwillhickers spouting COVID vaccine conspiracism	1,929	1,929
AI-generated articles by Tatar Russian	5,126	5,126
Vandalism at Battle of Yultong	944	944
Ethiopian Epic Refusal to Discuss Edits	3,087	3,087
Promotional editing and IDHT	20,971	20,971
User:GAMERBOY102 is trying to game Today's Featured Article Process	3,207	3,207
Fictitious references introduced by User:XXzoonamiXX around 2014	4,012	4,012
USER:CleoSpar	2,691	2,691
Category:Requests for unblock under sustained attack by MidAtlanticBaby	20,389	20,389
User:Hanson Wu	2,922	2,922
Ezra Ben Yosef	14,536	15,292
Redux	756	756
User:Liz is wheel warring	33,643	33,643
Margaret Sanger & User:Anotherperson123	2,531	2,531
User:Fakolyabuoz's persistent unreferenced edits	912	912
Nothing to say about me really vandal	1,645	1,645
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Create Page

Can someone create a page with this title please.

BAMIDELE OLUTUNJI OMOTOSHO Womotosho (talk) 22:10, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd recommend you edit other articles first before starting a new one. Help:Introduction os a good place to start. As you've given a name you should look at Wikipedia:Notability (people) as we are very selective on who we give articles to. Secretlondon (talk) 22:40, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive366#IBAN_appeal

It would have been preferable for this to be closed rather than archived by a bot. Heartfox (talk) 03:36, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome to un-archive it, but please make sure the archived copy is removed so there are not duplicates. Primefac (talk) 15:08, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request an advice

Can I open a case at ANI based on Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Really? regarding reviewers not fulfilling their duties and pretending to be busy? As a result, my nominations were closed due to timeout without any fault of my own. These closed cases have undermined my efforts and hard work. I'm asking here because I'm not sure if my case is eligible for the ANI process. Thanks Hteiktinhein (talk) 05:40, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No. We are all volunteers here, which means that if people are busy, then they're busy. We don't submit timesheets for our work on Wikipedia, and no editor is ever required to make an edit if they don't want to. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:19, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So why Dyk is stand for? Hteiktinhein (talk) 20:42, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you are only editing to get recognition at DYK then you are not here to build an encyclopedia. DYK is incidental to our work here: it is not the main point of it. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:55, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To answer your question, yes, you could open a thread asking for there to be consequnces for other users not doing what you want them to do, but the most likely result of such a thread would be a WP:BOOMERANG for you, so you probably shouldn't do that. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 04:17, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, absolutely not. This is absurd. Wikipedia is a volunteer project. We can stop editors from breaking policies, but we can't actively make any editors actively do any tasks. What would intervention even do? Do you think warnings, blocks or topic bans are going to help increase DYK participation? Sergecross73 msg me 12:00, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention that there appeared to be significant problems with the nomination, which is a BLP. Black Kite (talk) 15:19, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are ANI notices necessary when requesting to revoke TPA?

A few times I've come to ANI to request TPA be revoked for blocked users. I have served such users with ANI notices because the instructions say to do so. But I am wondering if that is necessary. First since the user cannot comment at ANI, and second because I only do so in cases of obvious promotion, vandalism, or other bad-faith edits. TornadoLGS (talk) 03:35, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This can be useful for talk page watchers (and sometimes if an admin watches the talk page, and the request is reasonable, they can revoke a TPA), but of course the general efficiency is low, as of pretty much everything which happens on Wikipedia. Ymblanter (talk) 10:07, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]