User talk:Σ/Archive/2017/October

Big Red Button

Hello everyone,

I’m new here, so I’m not entirely sure questions like thisare appropriate on a user talk page, so I apologize in advance. I am beyond confused on what rules apply to a talk page on a bot user page that resembles an article on what the bot and its purpose is. If anyone could offer guidance (read: links) I would very much appreciate it. Still learning the laws of the land.

Anywho, the reason I’m writing today is because there’s a big red clickable button that is clearly only meant for admins, yet it seems to be openly available for anyone logged in to click. It took I all I had (mostly fear that something bad would happen that I’d feel responsible for) to refrain from clicking it, even though I assumed it must reply with a 403 when a regular user clicks on it? But I’m still really curious, about both what would have happened if I had clicked on it, and what does happen when admins do.

What ‘'does’’ it do??

kumowoon1025 (talk) 12:50, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Kumowoon1025: Nothing will happen if you click it. As you can see from the link, it's merely a customized link to Special:Block with the username and reason prefilled for easier access. Only users with the block-userright (admins) can access that page so all that happens when you click on it is an error message that you are not allowed to access said special page. So feel free to click on it Regards SoWhy 13:03, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

@SoWhy: Ah great, thanks for your reply! But now I can’t remember where I first saw the button, was going to click on it to my heart’s content, but oh well :p kumowoon1025 (talk) 06:58, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2017 September newsletter

Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.

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