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Section sizes in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard

Section size for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (59 sections)
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Open tasks	222	222
New seemingly-related group of good-faith but deleterious West African copyeditors	33,600	68,675
Mainspace block for Nnamdi Kinghenry	16,204	16,204
Things editathon participants can do that aren't copyediting	12,835	18,871
Guinness World Record	1,008	1,008
They're still at it - what do we do?	5,028	5,028
Editor possibly gaming the system	11,716	11,716
ZebulonMorn	16,340	16,340
Invitation to a bit of RCP	11,959	11,959
RfC closure review request at :Talk:Rajiv Dixit#RFC can we say he peddaled false hoods in the lede	2,557	13,172
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Why I use alts	8,154	8,154
User:Marginataen	9,734	9,734
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File:JarJarInk's Dogs 2.jpg	1,092	1,092
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Sudden spate of userspace school essays with AI art	4,909	4,909
2025 Arbitration Committee	2,806	2,806
வேத கணிதம்	926	926
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HabsMTL	1,184	1,184
Chicdat ban appeal	9,809	9,809
Should I collapse, delete, or leave alone, some WP:ARBECR-breaking additions?	2,461	2,461
RM on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather	1,246	1,246
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Notification of RfC: Voluntary RfA after resignation	343	343
Several admins just standing by interrogating a user who was the subject of an obviously bad block.	21,266	21,266
Tripleye	930	930
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Request to create the 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑 redirect to Shavian alphabet	1,801	1,801
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(Top)	711	711
User:RocketKnightX Disruptive Editing	2,811	17,721
User:Tacotron2 attempted WP:VOTESTACK	5,375	5,375
A Summary	2,288	2,288
Proposal 1: Site Ban for User:RocketKnightX	7,247	7,247
User:Ahmad Shazlan	3,130	3,130
User:Budisgood and competence	11,869	19,699
User:The Banner and Disruptive editing	7,830	7,830
User:Rsk6400 reported by User:TwinBoo	5,952	5,952
Muhammad Yunus article	3,571	3,571
50.100.44.204	1,225	1,225
Cleopatra	3,313	3,313
Disruptive editor	1,485	1,485
Globallycz	5,348	5,348
Chronic semi-automated editing trouble	2,722	2,722
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Difficult rangeblock problem, beyond /64	1,509	1,509
Revoke talk page access for Bananamanwiki69	563	563
IP constantly removing WP:G1 template	2,225	2,225
Danielle Bradbery	5,100	5,100
User:115.166.47.77	2,276	2,276
User:Vazulvonal of Stockholm	2,437	2,437
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User Pyramoe - Mass Reversions, WP:Not Here	5,898	5,898
Ashutoshpaul	2,012	2,012
Total	107,317	107,317

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Edit summaries wiped out

Somebody has wiped out a bunch of edit summaries (20:16 to 20:42) by mistake, at the WP:ANI page. GoodDay (talk) 20:55, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Someone on the oversight team has suppressed a number of revisions. Nthep (talk) 21:12, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sistani nationality and original name

Moved to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents § Sistani nationality and original name

– –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:09, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Significant 100+ edits wiped out from WP:AN

Surprised to show up this morning to find two of my edits deleted from WP:AN, and then found that over 100 edits for multiple editors (including admins) were deleted spanning a block of 16 hours and multiple sections. Seem's like either an oversized-mop was used, or an accident occurred here. TiggerJay (talk) 16:04, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Tiggerjay: That link is not so useful I'm afraid :) SerialNumber54129^{A New Face in Hell} 16:47, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, although I'm not sure a better way, since it was literally every page history entry for a 16 hour period, and the date filter would almost be useless since it spanned into today. TiggerJay (talk) 19:41, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Tiggerjay as per the section above #Edit summaries wiped out, Someone on the oversight team has suppressed a number of revisions. If it was something that had been there for some time then that will have required a lot of revisions to be covered in the suppression. Nthep (talk) 16:55, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wish we could rebase edits so we didn't have to do this, but nobody seems to agree with me. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:37, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Destined to fail on two counts I'm afraid: a) it involves actual change, and b) it's a good idea. SerialNumber54129^{A New Face in Hell} 17:47, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Third count: for huge pages like ANI it's not technically possible with the software as it currently stands. It is technically possible, albeit a total pain, for smaller pages. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:58, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that one from a few days ago (and other similar instances) but that spanned a several minutes and less than a dozen edits, this was many hours and over a hundred different edits. It was just astonishing to see so much blown away that it must have been a mistake, but I guess that is the only choice when something egregious isn't suppressed right away. Given that way most ANI discussions occur its unfortunate that a more selective revdel cannot be used since individual edits don't frequently span other conversations. TiggerJay (talk) 20:28, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Editable archives

It seems that the ANI archive pages (e.g. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1173) have section edit links. This is not normal on archive pages: is it something special to ANI, or a mistake somewhere? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:00, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe {{Administrators' noticeboard navbox all}} can be taught to emit the flag to inhibit that, iff transcluded onto a "subpage" (or "a subpage containing the string 'archive'")? DMacks (talk) 20:43, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That wasn't too hard.[1] Which means I probably broke something as a side-effect. Trouts of various sizes welcome as appropriate. DMacks (talk) 16:01, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's suppressed the edit links, so

Thank you for that. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:05, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Broken code in blue "Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents" box

At the bottom of it:

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Pretty sure the "|- | class= " etc. bit isn't supposed to be there. -The Bushranger _{One ping only} 04:51, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@The Bushranger: I think I fixed it. Jip Orlando (talk) 17:20, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]