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283:: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the 114: 655: 794: 613: 767: 441: 365: 722: 561:. But the overspill that the football article saw (which seems to have been due to one person, thwarted in their attempts to make/edit the conspiracy article) seems to have abated. If the conspiracy article ends up being protected we might see further overspill, but absent that the football article is probably okay. I'd wager that, in a week or two, the locus of internet crazy will have moved to some other nonsense. -- 34: 674: 602: 877:
fit - US professional wrestling seems to blur the lines between its internal fantasy story and the real world to such an extent that I'm not confident I can evaluate sources about living people in that milieu at all. Thanks for noticing the defect; hopefully there wasn't other collateral damage in all that mess, but let me know if you see anything else. --
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Hi Finlay, for this "so the possibility of TX being in play, perhaps in 8 years, is not the psephological nebbishness it probably is today. " - you get my incredibly irregularly awarded sentence of the week commendation! Thanks for the refs and comment, you gave me chuckle (and hope for my depressing
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There was an unclosed link, in the section mentioning John Cena. I removed that, and the infobox renders okay. I didn't simply fix the link, because the rest of the article body doesn't mention Cena, and so I don't know if that's true or not. If it is, feel free to restore the content as you see
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established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:
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is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
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On first look I was linking it to the recent conspiracy theory furor but having just been reverted myself I now know that this is an actual thing that doesn't involve maniacs with shotguns. The world is an odd place.
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When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (
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closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (
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If it resurfaces, we can put an edit notice on that article (and maybe some comment text in that section) directly people to
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Meh, let him rant. In any event, it's rarely appropriate for the blocking admin to also be the one to revoke access. --
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I presume you didn't want to add that back to the article.
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User talk:Finlay McWalter

Extended confirmed protection
"extended confirmed" user right
this community discussion
a request for comment
Knowledge:Administrators' noticeboard
a report
the protection policy
mass message list

Collision (TV series)
AI RPer
talk
10:53, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
SemanticMantis
talk
18:26, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
Baul Broe UTTP VGCP
attack unblock request
Linguist
23:37, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Finlay McWalter
Talk
23:41, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Linguist
23:49, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
TOTP
preferences page
developing help page

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