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As was once said to another RfB candidate, "there's an excellent chance that this one will go to a bureaucrat chat. You might just barely eke this one out, [Amanda]. In the event that it ultimately passes, I'd like to give you my preemptive congratulations. (Fingers crossed.)" (Kurtis). I wholeheartedly agree that despite my support, this RfB might be destined to....*gulp* succeed - er - fail. I also particularly like the followup, but your username does not contain 'flux' and therefore the pun doesn't work much. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 15:05, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fingers crossed... Kurtis ^(talk) 23:47, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DeltaQuad, congratulations on passing your RfB, you are now a bureaucrat for the English Wikipedia. Welcome to the team! (Nihonjoe and I trampled over eachother to promote you!). — xaosflux ^Talk 01:18, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely, welcome to the team! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 01:21, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Excited to have you on the team! Welcome, welcome! –xeno^talk 01:27, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations for bureaucratship !! CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 01:19, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Concrats (Congrats) on your successful RfB, the first successful one since July of 2016! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:22, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations! Can I be a bot now? ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 01:25, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Felicitations on your successful RfB. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:58, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats! Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 02:02, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats! J 947 ^{^{^(c)}}, at 02:41, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As I said above, congratulations! I still think it was close enough that withdrawl was probably the better course of action --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 03:12, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats and Best Wishes.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 03:17, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you all to all welcoming me now, and to those doing so soon. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 03:35, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, DQ. --Pine(✉) 06:17, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats!! SQL ^{Query me!} 08:16, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
❤ Heartiest Congratulations ! ❤ --DBig Xrayᗙ 08:33, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations Hhkohh (talk) 09:08, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Wooo! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 10:53, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Well done, and I'm sorry I misidentified you as male! Deb (talk) 14:28, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations, obviously. I vandalized your user page. Mkdw ^talk 18:06, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

But.....vandalism is bad! I must urge you, Mkdw, to revert your edit lest someone be offended

--TheSandDoctor ^Talk 04:17, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:20, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations Amanda! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:27, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to see that there are two newer bureaucrats than me now. ;) Seriously, though, well done - welcome to the team, DeltaQuad! Acalamari 00:20, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again to all. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 01:09, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations and best wishes. Donner60 (talk) 04:20, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations on your promotion! Jianhui67^T★C 15:34, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations! (or should I say my sympathies?) --rogerd (talk) 20:41, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats ! Take care.---Wikaviani ^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:57, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Well done!-- 5 albert square (talk) 00:24, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I did get around to reviewing your RfB, and I had decided to add my enthusiastic support! It is with great regret that I did not get around to !voting in time, but you have my congratulations and my ex post facto strong support. Your answers to the questions were exceptional. All the best, ~Swarm~ {talk} 03:57, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OMG, OMG I am so sorry, Damn I missed your RfB ! I'm going to go read it right now, Oh CONGRATS :)...... - FlightTime (open channel) 23:56, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please move this draft?

Could you please move Draft:Cyclone Idai to the mainspace, over the redirect? Cyclone Idai is a currently active system that had killed over a hundred people in southeastern Africa to date. Noah^Talk 01:24, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done -- Amanda (aka DQ) 02:17, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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18:04, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Revdel request

Can you please revdel this revision EFD wasn't working and I had to compare different versions of commonsettings.php. Thank you, - FlightTime (open channel) 21:02, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done Please be aware I have suppressed it as it includes passwords to your backend. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 21:06, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Shit, thanx for the catch, forgot about that, it's been awhile since I dealt with those files, thanx. - FlightTime (open channel) 21:11, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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16:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Sock mass page moves

Greetings Amanda. A confirmed sock has gone and done a massive number of page moves [9], I was wondering if there was a way of undoing their moves automatically at all? Regards --Kzl55 (talk) 22:12, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly, there is no easy way. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 23:32, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Kzl55: (talk page stalker) would you like help moving the pages back? --DannyS712 (talk) 23:38, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And actually there is a way to make it easier - try User:Danski454/undo-move.js and go to [10]. Next to each move is a "revert" button to move the page back. --DannyS712 (talk) 23:39, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Kzl55: I've reverted all of the ones that weren't already moved. — JJMC89 (T·C) 00:08, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@JJMC89: they also moved some drafts to mainspace that haven't been reverted. Should they be? (1, 2, 3) --DannyS712 (talk) 00:11, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

They created those. If a NPR (or other experienced editor) wants to draftify them under the usual guidelines, I have no objection, but I'm not going to move them back. — JJMC89 (T·C) 00:32, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DannyS712, JJMC89, and DeltaQuad: Really appreciate your help, saved me quite a bit of time doing them manually. I am happy to draftify the articles linked by Danny if there are no objections. Regards --Kzl55 (talk) 15:56, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

Hi. You might want to take a look at your log entry here, specifically the rational for deletion. Just an fyi, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:27, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Script doesn't know how to handle multiple deletion criteria. Thanks. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 05:30, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but apparently twinkle didn't work in this case either - new log entry: G8: Subpage of a deleted or non-existent page - G8 is correct, but its a talk page without a subject page, not a subpage. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:33, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No, that was a human error, but i'm not going to undelete and redelete for similar meaning. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 06:34, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DeltaQuad: okay, just wanted to let you know. --DannyS712 (talk) 06:45, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

SPI

Can you take a look at this SPI: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arsi786? You checked this suspected sock on an SPI earlier[11] but it is possible that your check was limited. ML^talk 13:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding access to acc tool

I had applied for access to acc tool, a week ago but I haven't got any response on that(its mentioned on the application page, that if my application is rejected I will get a mail or if it's approved a message on talkpage!), you are one of the tool admins. So I thought to ping you and check with the things, if I am missing on something or the response time for such requests would be more? thanks and regards. QueerEcofeminist^{"cite! even if you fight"!!!} [they/them/their] 15:41, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes

Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB

Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah

Mentifisto → Lofty abyss

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

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DeltaQuad

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Technical news

In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
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Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

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I know I'm late to the party, but my congratulations (or commiserations!) on the new role. Thehelpfulone 22:51, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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