User talk:Theleekycauldron/Archive/2025/May

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Your Wikiconference 2024 talk

Hi! I was browsing last year's north america wikiconference program, and was curious if you could share the slides and notes? There wasn't a recording or notes I could find.

Thank you! E mln e (talk) 22:03, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

@E mln e: here it is! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:25, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

and the WCNA playlist is here :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:25, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

thank you so much! We are actually trying to do just what you advocate with the Bay Area Wikipedians, but it's been slow going. I'll report! E mln e (talk) 20:57, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Reward Board

Hi, @Theleekycauldron, I would lake to take up your reward board challenge of fixing 15 newspapers.com sources. I have already done one on Pope John Paul I. History6042😊 (Contact me) 01:32, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

@History6042: Sounds good, best of luck! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:23, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

A leek for you!

Though I'm not particularly active in it, thanks for all your work at DYK and other misc admin stuff. Also, random question if you don't mind me asking - how many notifs do admins usually get? I'd expect that you get flooded by vandal spam and other mop-related messages all the time depending on the areas ya'll work in. Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 18:54, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

@GoldRomean: Oh, thank you so much! I don't actually get too many talk page notifs, maybe about one a week – some admins have much more active talk pages than me, but I don't do much counter-vandalism or SPI so it's pretty quiet. Leek Weasley is safe with me :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 16:37, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

A few seconds

Haha, you are right. It wasn’t a few seconds! Oops. I thought a few months ago that I had done the same, and it does give you a sinking feeling! Luckily, I didn’t do it after all. I assume that nothing happened in your case. Schwede 66 07:31, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

newspapers.com image -> article

I have made 15 clippings (or replaced /image with existing clippings):

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

Please let me know if there are any issues with those. Like Bunnypranav above, I'm happy to have my QPQ used elsewhere, and would accept any other means of recognition. :) FortunateSons (talk) 15:14, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).

Administrator changes

Rusalkii

NaomiAmethyst (overlooked last month)

Interface administrator changes

Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO.
An RfC has resulted in a broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.

Miscellaneous

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Your draft article, Draft:Lady Bird Johnson

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Response to your comment

Since another Arb has told me not to provide that information[16] on that talk page because it would be casting aspersions, I self-reverted this message explaining why "May 19th" is a significant date.[17] Chess (talk) (please mention me on reply) 01:26, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

thanks, we're discussing it :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 16:49, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

User:Theleekycauldron/Templates/DYK queue backlog errors

Heya leek—User:Theleekycauldron/Templates/DYK queue backlog is currently displaying that we have five filled queues, because there are indeed five queue which have non-zero numbers of hooks filled in. However, only two of those queues are actually complete (TM:DYK/Q4 and TM:DYK/Q6); the other three are partially done. Not sure what the fix is, but I don't think "there are five entire queues filled! Five!" is an accurate picture of the state of DYKland. House Blaster (talk • he/they) 00:43, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

heya, house! a bit of motivated reasoning, because accommodating this with templates would be a bunch of work i don't wanna do, but i think it's fine to more or less expect that the promoting admin will have all of their ducks in a row by showtime. i could maybe whip something up that shows how many queues have {{DYKbotdo}} tags, the way Gatoclass is doing right now, but i wouldn't want an admin to come along and fill the queue i'm working because they feel like they need to. I'm workin' on it :P theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:49, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Tan Jin Sing

I substituted my preferred alt for this nom after getting acceptance from two participants at DYK talk, but on reflection, perhaps I was a little hasty and should have asked your opinion first. It's just that these hook discussions are burning up too much of my time and consequently causing me a little anxiety. So if you still have an objection, please don't let my somewhat WP:BOLD promotion discourage you from raising it. Regards, Gatoclass (talk) 14:15, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

Not at all, Gatoclass, you're good! I appreciate you letting me know :) like I said at the top of the thread, I'm mostly not looking to spike anything or make sure every hook DYK runs is perfect – I'm just trying to make sure I'm happy with all of the ones I put my signature on. Unless I pull a hook and send it back to DYKN, admins don't need to check with me before putting it back in queue, altered or unaltered, as long as they're willing to endorse it. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 17:00, 22 May 2025 (UTC)