User Talk: QuantumRealm
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Congratulations sir, you edited the swearing in of President Biden. Idan (talk) 17:01, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
: No need to congratulate! It's a new day in the USA. ^_^ Biden is our new president. :) '''<b style="color:#000">Quantum</b><sup style="color:#300">Realm</sup>''' (<b style="color:#609">meow</b> • <b style="color:#F63">pawtrack</b> ↗) 17:18, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
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Here's an image from that IP
https://img1.cgtrader.com/items/779858/0cd916d1ba/michael-jordan-3d-model-obj-wrl-wrz-mtl.jpg
I was going to be funny about reverting their edit with just that link, but the next edit sadly killed the mood.
It's a sudden Michael Jordan very close to the camera, BTW. CyanoTex (talk) 19:59, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
: Yeah! LOL, a jumpscare. xD '''<b style="color:#000">Quantum</b><sup style="color:#300">Realm</sup>''' (<b style="color:#609">meow</b> • <b style="color:#F63">pawtrack</b> ↗) 20:02, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Clean up after AfC
Hi QuantumRealm,
I'm the editor who reviewed Ben Fergusson ↗, which you recently moved from the draftspace. I was wondering whether you were aware of some of the clean-up tasks that can be done after a draft is moved: the article lacked a short description WP:SHORTDESC ↗, was not stub-sorted WP:STUBSORT ↗, was put into imprecise categories (try finding the most precise categories possible), and its talk page did not have all the relevant banners. Now, none of these are necessary but I'd consider them good practice. No need to apply them to Ben Fergusson – I have taken care of that. Feel free to talk to me if you have questions. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 21:56, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
:I just noticed you were enrolled in NPP school. I'm sure those things will be covered there. Happy editing, Modussiccandi (talk) 22:01, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
::{{re|Modussiccandi}} Thank you! You too, happy editing. :) '''<b style="color:#000">Quantum</b><sup style="color:#300">Realm</sup>''' (<b style="color:#609">meow</b> • <b style="color:#F63">pawtrack</b> ↗) 05:44, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
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Request on 18:12:38, 11 October 2021 for assistance on AfC ↗ submission by Bhatramray
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Concern regarding Draft:Suzanne_Kianpour ↗
Hi QuantumRealm. Responding to your denial of this article, I am wondering about your thoughts. This individual is a highly accomplished reporter working for BBC news who has hosted three television shows, authored a book, and has interviewed many high profile individuals. I added more references to the page. I would actually argue that she just as accomplished as Tara McKelvey ↗ - whose references are mostly dead links. Please let me know so I may fix this article to your liking. Thanks! Ksaraf (talk) 15:35, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
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: Couldn't find any reliable sources for Galaxy Heroes Coin, not ready for mainspace. '''<b style="color:#000">Quantum</b><sup style="color:#300">Realm</sup>''' (<b style="color:#609">meow</b> • <b style="color:#F63">pawtrack</b> ↗) 16:35, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
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- Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review ↗, the autopatrolled user right has been removed ↗ from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review ↗ has led to the creation of an administrative action review process ↗. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions ↗.
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- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{Noping|Beeblebrox}}, {{Noping|Cabayi}}, {{Noping|Donald Albury}}, {{Noping|Enterprisey}}, {{Noping|Izno}}, {{Noping|Opabinia regalis}}, {{Noping|Worm That Turned}}, {{Noping|Wugapodes}}.
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- The functionaries email list ↗ (''{{NonSpamEmail|functionaries-en|lists.wikimedia.org}}'') will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2022).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ AustralianRupert ↗ • Cimon Avaro ↗ • Euryalus ↗ • Jehochman ↗ • Nunh-huh ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ 28bytes ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Evad37 ↗ • Galobtter ↗
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:*The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines ↗ have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page ↗.
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:*The user group <code>oversight</code> will be renamed <code>suppress</code> in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons ↗. You can comment in Phabricator ↗ if you have objections.
:*The Reply Tool ↗ feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion ↗.
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:*Community input is requested ↗ on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions ↗ that are no longer needed or overly broad.
:*The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment ↗ regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
:*A motion ↗ related to the Antisemitism in Poland ↗ case was passed following a declined case request ↗.
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:*Voting in the 2022 Steward elections ↗ will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.
:*Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey ↗ is open until 11 February 2022.
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WP:AFC ↗ Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants ↗; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
- AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
- The template {{t|db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{t|db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2022).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Modussiccandi ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ BOZ ↗ • Brookie ↗ (deceased) • Jackmcbarn ↗ • Jamesday ↗ • Jonathunder ↗ • Master of Puppets ↗ • Saravask ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Callanecc ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Callanecc ↗
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:*A RfC is open ↗ to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 ↗ to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
:*A RfC is open ↗ to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
:*The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project ↗. ({{phab|T296645}})
:*Special:Nuke ↗ will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request ↗ from 2022. ({{phab|T25020}})
:*The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete ↗ or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey ↗. ({{phab|T295389}})
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:*Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies ↗ have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review ↗.
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:* The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission ↗ are Érico ↗, Faendalimas ↗, Galahad ↗, Infinite0694 ↗, Mykola7 ↗, Olugold ↗, Udehb ↗ and Zabe ↗ as regular members and Ameisenigel ↗ and JJMC89 ↗ as advisory members.
:* Following the 2022 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber ↗, BRPever ↗, Hasley ↗, TheresNoTime ↗, and Vermont ↗.
:*The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results ↗ have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2022).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Firefly ↗ • Sdrqaz ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Ad Orientem ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Geschichte ↗ • Ryan Postlethwaite ↗ • Sabine's Sunbird ↗ • Wassupwestcoast ↗
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- An RfC is open ↗ proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete ↗ has been expanded to include users who have the <code>deletelogentry</code> and <code>deletedhistory</code> rights. This means that those in the Researcher ↗ user group and Checkusers ↗ who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete ↗. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. ({{phab|T301928}})
- When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete ↗ a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. ({{phab|T284114}})
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- {{section link|Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Procedures#Opening_of_proceedings}} has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion ↗.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing ↗ has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones ↗ has been opened.
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- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ↗ has closed, and the results ↗ were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board ↗ will now review the guidelines.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2022).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Colin M ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Ks0stm ↗
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- Following an RfC ↗, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy ↗. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion ↗ on the bureaucrat's noticeboard ↗, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey ↗.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''
- Remedy 2 ↗ of the ''St Christopher'' case has been rescinded following a motion ↗. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine ↗ or related pages from those pages.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2022).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Tamzin ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Barek ↗ • Darkwind ↗ • Geometry guy ↗ • ProcseeBot ↗ • RoyBoy ↗ • Sean Whitton ↗ • Valereee ↗ • Visorstuff ↗ • WAvegetarian ↗
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- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes ↗ have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ↗. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input ↗ on these areas.
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- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block ↗ directly from user pages. ({{phab|T307341}})
- The IP Info feature ↗ has been deployed ↗ to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under {{myprefs|Beta features}}. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''
- Remedy 2 ↗ of the ''Rachel Marsden'' case has been rescinded following a motion ↗. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden ↗ when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy ↗.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones ↗ has been closed.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2022).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ AA ↗ • Gwalla ↗ • Ioeth ↗ • Laurascudder ↗ • Moriori ↗ (deceased ↗) • Nat ↗ • Rfl ↗
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ {{noping|Drilnoth}} → {{noping|AFigureOfBlue}}
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- <code>user_global_editcount</code> is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters ↗ to avoid affecting globally active users. ({{phab|T130439}})
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- An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing ↗ has been opened.
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- The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here ↗. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2022).
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Valereee ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Anthony Appleyard ↗ (deceased ↗) • Capitalistroadster ↗ • Samsara ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- An RfC ↗ has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
- An RfC ↗ has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.
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- The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon ↗ will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
- Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570 ↗)
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- The arbitration case request ''Geschichte ↗'' has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.
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- You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections ↗ from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
- Wikimania 2022 ↗ is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here ↗. There are also a number of in-person events ↗ associated with Wikimania around the world.
- '''Tech tip''': When revision-deleting on desktop, hold {{key|shift}} between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2022).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ DanCherek ↗ • DatGuy ↗ • Femke ↗ • Z1720 ↗
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- A discussion ↗ is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
- An RfC ↗ is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News ↗ is reliable ↗ for science and politics.
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- The impact report ↗ on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
- The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) ↗ system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided ↗. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email ↗ Madalina Ana ↗.
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- An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing ↗ has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy ↗ as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
- The arbitration case request ''Jonathunder ↗'' has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.
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- The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter ↗ before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
- Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees ↗ is open until 6 September.
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (September 2022).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ ScottishFinnishRadish ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Staxringold ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Ahoerstemeier ↗ (deceased ↗) • Ched ↗
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- Following an RfC ↗, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee ↗, a checkuser ↗ or an oversighter ↗ for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance ↗) instead of the administrator making the block.
- Following an RfC ↗, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com ↗ is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
- Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines ↗ is requested until 8 October.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- The Articles for creation helper script ↗ now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP ↗ to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to {{myprefs|Gadgets}} and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''
- Remedy 8.1 ↗ of the ''Muhammad images'' case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion ↗.
- A modification ↗ to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing ↗ case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
- The second phase ↗ of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review ↗ closes 3 October.
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- An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure ↗, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship ↗ in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission ↗ for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections ↗ open 2 October and close 8 October.
- You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process ↗.
- An RfC is open ↗ to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
- '''Tech tip''': You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (October 2022).
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- The article creation at scale ↗ RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
- An RfC is open ↗ to discuss having open requests for adminship ↗ automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat ↗.
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- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections ↗.
- The arbitration ↗ case request titled ''Athaenara'' has been resolved by motion ↗.
- The arbitration ↗ case ''Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block ↗'' has entered the proposed decision stage.
- {{noping|AmandaNP}}, {{noping|Mz7}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the Electoral Commission ↗ for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗. {{noping|Xaosflux}} and {{noping|Dr vulpes}} are reserve commissioners.
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- The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process ↗ has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
- You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators ↗.
- '''Tech tip''': Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{tlx|rangeblock|2=create=yes}} or {{tlx|uw-ublock|2=contains profanity}}.
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (November 2022).
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- Consensus has been found in an RfC ↗ to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
- The article creation at scale ↗ RfC has been closed ↗.
- An RfC ↗ on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.
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- A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin ↗. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 ↗ gadget. ({{phab|T319449}})
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- Eligible users ↗ are invited to vote on candidates ↗ for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here ↗.
- The proposed decision ↗ for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system ↗ is open.
- The arbitration case ''Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block ↗'' has been closed.
- The arbitration case ''Stephen ↗'' has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
- A motion ↗ has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop ↗.
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- '''Tech tip''': A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add <code>/64</code> to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions ↗ to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet ↗ rather than an IP that may change within a minute.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (December 2022).
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- Speedy deletion criterion ↗ A5 ↗ (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal ↗.
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- Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{Noping|Barkeep49}}, {{Noping|CaptainEek}}, {{Noping|GeneralNotability}}, {{Noping|Guerillero}}, {{Noping|L235}}, {{Noping|Moneytrees}}, {{Noping|Primefac}}, {{Noping|SilkTork}}.
- The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review ↗ has concluded ↗ with many changes to the discretionary sanctions ↗ procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
- The arbitration case ''Stephen ↗'' has been closed.
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- Voting for the Sound Logo ↗ has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
- '''Tech tip''': You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye ↗ which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2023).
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- Following an RfC ↗, the administrator policy ↗ now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee ↗ to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
- Following a community discussion ↗, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction ↗ over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan ↗ and Kurds and Kurdistan ↗.
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- The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.
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- The arbitration case ''Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 ↗'' has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
- In December, the contentious topics procedure ↗ was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system ↗. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period ↗. There is a detailed summary ↗ of the changes and administrator instructions ↗ for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard ↗.
- Voting in the 2023 Steward elections ↗ will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.
- Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey ↗ will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
- '''Tech tip''': Syntax highlighting ↗ is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2023).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- Following a request for comment ↗, F10 ↗ (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
- Following a request for comment ↗, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 ↗ (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 ↗ (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
- A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss making the closing instructions ↗ for the requested moves ↗ process a guideline.
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- The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey ↗ have been posted ↗.
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- Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") ↗ of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case ↗ has been rescinded ↗.
- The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 ↗ case is expected 7 March 2023.
- A case related to the Holocaust in Poland ↗ is expected to be opened soon.
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- The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission ↗ are AGK ↗, Ameisenigel ↗, Bennylin ↗, Daniuu ↗, Emufarmers ↗, Faendalimas ↗, JJMC89 ↗, MdsShakil ↗, Minorax ↗ and Renvoy ↗ as regular members and Zabe ↗ as advisory members.
- Following the 2023 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7 ↗, Superpes15 ↗, and Xaosflux ↗.
- The Terms of Use update cycle ↗ has started, which includes ↗ a {{tq|[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing}}. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2023).
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- A community RfC ↗ is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies ↗ should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard ↗.
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- Some older web browser ↗s will not be able to use JavaScript ↗ on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11 ↗. ({{phab|T178356}})
- The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC ↗ has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
- A link to the user's {{#special:CentralAuth}} ↗ page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on {{#special:Contributions}} ↗. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ↗.
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- The ''Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 ↗'' case has been closed.
- A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland ↗ has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.
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Draft:Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association
QuantumRealm. Thank you for reviewing and accepting the article Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association. I am a bit confused and need help. The article is still listed as "Draft:Pennsylvania Manu...." When I click on the "Move" command for the article, it tells me you "moved" the Draft:Pennsylvania Manu...." on 10 April. But there is still no article titled "Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association." I'd like to move it out of draft and into mainspace, but do not know how to accomplish this. So please Help! Hamish barebones (talk) 18:30, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
QuantumRealm. I realize you're busy, but wondered if you even got this message. So, not wanting to be too much of a pest - can you help me with this issue? Thanks. Hamish barebones (talk) 14:47, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
:Hello Hamish_barebones,
:Thank you for reaching out to me about the "Draft:Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association" article. I understand your confusion and concerns. I apologize for any misunderstanding that may have occurred. After further consideration, I decided to draftify the article because it requires some additional improvements and sources to meet Wikipedia's content guidelines and notability criteria.
:As an experienced editor, I would recommend you to take a look at the following Wikipedia policies and guidelines for better understanding:
:*WP:N – Notability guidelines: Make sure the subject of the article meets Wikipedia's notability criteria and has received significant coverage in reliable, independent sources.
:*WP:RS – Reliable sources: Ensure that the article is well-sourced with citations from reliable and independent sources to support the information provided.
:*WP:V – Verifiability: All the information in the article should be verifiable, and any challenged or likely-to-be-challenged material must be supported by reliable sources.
:*WP:MOS – Manual of Style: Follow the Wikipedia Manual of Style for a consistent and professional presentation of the article.
:To increase the chances of the article being accepted, I would suggest working on these aspects and addressing any possible issues. You may also want to seek input from other experienced editors or post your draft at the Wikipedia:Teahouse for further feedback and guidance.
:Once you have made the necessary improvements, you can resubmit the article for review through the Articles for Creation process. Keep in mind that acceptance is not guaranteed, but addressing the issues I mentioned above will definitely improve the likelihood.
:I hope this helps you, and I appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia. If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out.
:Best regards,
:'''<b style="color:#000">Quantum</b><sup style="color:#300">Realm</sup>''' (<b style="color:#609">meow</b> • <b style="color:#F63">pawtrack</b> ↗) 10:17, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
::QuantumRealm. I am very confused. How did we get from: "Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions. The article has been assessed as C-Class…. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 19% of accepted submissions — kudos to you!"
::To: "(the article) requires some additional improvements and sources to meet Wikipedia's content guidelines and notability criteria."
::Please answer a few questions for me:
::As an experienced editor, I would recommend you to take a look at the following Wikipedia policies and guidelines for better understanding:
::QR: WP:N – Notability guidelines: Make sure the subject of the article meets Wikipedia's notability criteria and has received significant coverage in reliable, independent sources.
::''HB: Does not this apply to all articles? Can I respectfully submit that a subject is either “notable” or it is “not notable?” There is no middle ground. So there is little I can do here, except suggest that an organization that has been successfully serving the US fifth largest state’s manufacturing base for 113 years is notable? Now I have to prove it.''
::QR: WP:RS – Reliable sources: Ensure that the article is well-sourced with citations from reliable and independent sources to support the information provided.
::''HB: I can do something here like adding more citations. The article currently has 23 citations. One of those citations is from the PMA itself, explaining its organizational purpose. I am presently adding more and deleting the PMA citation and its content.''
::QR: WP:V – Verifiability: All the information in the article should be verifiable, and any challenged or likely-to-be-challenged material must be supported by reliable sources.
::''HB: All current sources for citations are verifiable. I will continue to add sources that meet this criterion.''
::QR: WP:MOS – Manual of Style: Follow the Wikipedia Manual of Style for a consistent and professional presentation of the article.
::''HB: Can you get more specific here? I’ve been editing for almost four years but took a big break during the Covid lockdowns and should be considered a new editor. I have talked to a more experienced editor and asked him to review the article. He made several suggestions on revisions, which I will make.''
::''Final question (I promise) It took four months to get this article approved. There are now more (3,900) articles in the pending articles for creation approval queue. If I rewrite the article and it meets your approval, can you change the Draft: Article to mainspace?
::Thanks for your interest and help.''Hamish barebones (talk) 15:07, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2023).
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- A request for comment ↗ about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
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- Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project ↗. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter ↗ that requested improvements be made to the tool.
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- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland ↗ case is expected 11 May 2023.
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- The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input ↗ through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2023).
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- Following an RfC ↗, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus ↗ will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
- As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking ↗ project, a new policy has been created ↗ that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ ↗ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.
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- Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking ↗. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until ''at least'' October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.
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- The arbitration case ''World War II and the history of Jews in Poland ↗'' has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.
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- Following a community referendum ↗, the arbitration policy ↗ has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to {{noping|Jimbo Wales}}.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2023).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License ↗ (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license ↗.
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- Discussion is open ↗ regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources ↗. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.
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- Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong ↗ case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW ↗ case.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2023).
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- The tag filter on Special:NewPages ↗ and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. ({{phab|T334338}})
- Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist ↗. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist ↗. ({{phab|T337431}})
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- The arbitration cases named Scottywong ↗ and AlisonW ↗ closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute ↗ arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2023).
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- Following an RfC ↗, TFAs ↗ will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
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Approve my biography and move to main Article BootNet (talk) 13:12, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Draft about videogame Zula Global
Please, can you help me with my draft Draft:Zula Global ↗? I don't understand why my references aren't good. Online there's nothing else besides the official website, a couple of articles, and the official Steam page of the game. Thank you <3 2001:B07:646B:5D96:118A:C8F9:AD87:FF85 ↗ (talk) 14:05, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Draft:Oluebube Amarauche Chukwu
Hi, trust you are well.
I am writing to know why my draft was nominated for speedy delivery as I made all the changes requested I make to this article from my previous submission. I even modeled this recent submission after Approved Wiki pages of appointed SSGs in Nigeria such as Abubakar Shehu-Abubakar ↗, George Akume ↗,Tammy Danagogo ↗ to name a few.
I saw you said the references were not notabe enough but they are from local news papers with active links and I can add more news references but they will still refer to Oluebube as an aide which is his current role in the government.
Awaiting your kind response. Thanks
Jedirage (talk) 22:03, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Draft:Manifold (prediction market)
Hi! Thanks for reviewing the draft. Can you explain to me why sources 5, 6, 17, and 18 fail WP:CORP? Much appreciated.
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Dear QuantumRealm, Thank you, can you accept this draft,If you feel comfortable, I'm also a afc reviewers, but I prefers WP:AFC ↗ for articles. Thnx :) ~~ <span style="background-color:magenta; padding: 2px 5px 1px 5px"><span style="color:white">αvírαm</span><nowiki>|</nowiki>(tαlk)</span> 11:24, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
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::@Aviram7 Seems like it has already been accepted. '''<b style="color:#000">Quantum</b><sup style="color:#333">Realm</sup>''' (<b style="color:#609">meow🦁</b> • <b style="color:#F63">pawtrack🐾</b> ↗) 06:54, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, I removed a redundant text that was found both in "european hand fan section" and "cultural variations". Even if I explain the reason in the edit summary, you still tagged me as vandalism. It is not needed to have exactly the same text twice. 2001:1C06:1B01:9400:2F:A1C1:58D7:6EAF ↗ (talk) 13:49, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
:Check your talk page, and I undid the edits before you even sent this message over. Thanks once again! <3 '''<b style="color:#000">Quantum</b><sup style="color:#333">Realm</sup>''' (<b style="color:#609">meow🦁</b> • <b style="color:#F63">pawtrack🐾</b> ↗) 13:52, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
::Yes! Noticed shortly after. Thanks for the appreciation! 2001:1C06:1B01:9400:2F:A1C1:58D7:6EAF ↗ (talk) 14:00, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, reference this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:164.39.195.26 message you left on my IP talk page. Apologies, it's a shared IP @ work and looks like someone here has discovered they can edit Wiki pages. I'll find out who it was tomorrow & tell them we'll get blocked if they do it again. I do apologise. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by 164.39.195.26 ↗ (talk) 16:19, 4 December 2023 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:No problem! No need to apologize. <3 '''<b style="color:#000">Quantum</b><sup style="color:#333">Realm</sup>''' (<b style="color:#609">meow🦁</b> • <b style="color:#F63">pawtrack🐾</b> ↗) 16:36, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
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Draft:John Mackenzie Burns
Thank you for your notes on the article submission yesterday. We're working on it and will re-submit.
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Do you even read the contributions of IPs before you thank and welcome them to Wikipedia? This welcome ↗ to an IP for vandalizing the article about the upcoming superbowl strikes me as inappropriate. <b style="color:green">Tarl N.</b> (<span style="color:teal">discuss</span>) 21:35, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
:@Tarl N. I'd like to address the issues you brought up. I looked back at the edit you were referring to, and I couldn't find '''thanks''' in the way you described. As part of building a positive and welcoming community, my method has been to welcome all unregistered IPs.
:I get that your message on my talk page was meant to give your point of view, but it came across as a bit hostile to me. I think the best way to clear up any confusion or argument is to talk about it in an open and '''polite way'''. I am a '''volunteer''' just as you, I deserve respect and dignity. There was nothing inappropriate that I did.
:If you still think my actions don't follow community standards, I'm willing to talk about this more or look into other options, such as the ANI report, to find a solution.
:Thank you for letting me know about this. I look forward to continuing to work with you in a good and helpful way. '''<b style="color:#000">Quantum</b><sup style="color:#333">Realm</sup>''' (<b style="color:#609">meow🦁</b> • <b style="color:#F63">pawtrack🐾</b> ↗) 10:36, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
::Sorry I came across as cranky, but I strongly feel that when interacting with a new user's edit, the fundamental operation an editor should perform is verify that edit is both meaningful and acceptable. By providing a welcome message and creating their talk page, you set the user's visible status to other editors as "has previously interacted with the Wikipedia Community" (no red link on the talk). That status changes the risk calculus for a bad edit - to the detriment of other reviewers. I'd ask that when you spend the seconds creating a new talk page with a welcome message, you at least look at the edit which brought them to your attention, and validate it does not itself cause problems for Wikipedia. <b style="color:green">Tarl N.</b> (<span style="color:teal">discuss</span>) 23:29, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
:::I acknowledge your viewpoint. However, a capable editor ought to evaluate a user based on their contributions, not by what is on their talk page. If the user is engaging in vandalism, this will be evident from their edit history. The editor's response should be based on the quality and nature of these contributions, without considering whether the user has received interactions or welcome messages on their talk page. '''<b style="color:#000">Quantum</b><sup style="color:#333">Realm</sup>''' (<b style="color:#609">meow🦁</b> • <b style="color:#F63">pawtrack🐾</b> ↗) 05:12, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Reverts
If you make a revert, unless it is for vandalism, please remember to leave an edit summary explaining the reason for your revert. And please have one. This is especially important when using tools, such as rollback. You seem to be forgetting to leave such edit summaries, and be making reverts without any apparent rationale, other than “I do not like it.” 2603:7000:2101:AA00:49C4:B839:790A:579E ↗ (talk) 11:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
:In addition, as to red links, please don’t delete them because you dislike them. Only - especially with tools - only revert their creation with an edit summary. And only when “there is no reasonable expectation that the article in question will eventually be created (either as its own article or as a redirect).” If such a reasonable expectation exists, kindly let it be. “In general, a red link should be allowed to remain in an article if it links to a term that could plausibly sustain an article, but for which there is no existing candidate article, or article section, under any name.” In accordance w our rules. You have been reverting red links to what are clearly plausible articles - books by a notable author for example. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:49C4:B839:790A:579E ↗ (talk) 11:24, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
Draft:Jishnu Raghavan
I'm not Sock, I'm not a Sock please don't suspect me I had just created this article in a good faith. It's true that I'm not a SOCK. In this wikipedia platform I'm to edit and create new article in my future. Sreenu S (talk) 16:24, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
Nesshunter ↗
IRC related exception to overturn Nesshunter (talk) 22:07, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
:{{ping|Nesshunter}} What do you mean? '''<b style="color:#000">Quantum</b><sup style="color:#333">Realm</sup>''' (<b style="color:#609">meow🦁</b> • <b style="color:#F63">pawtrack🐾</b> ↗) 06:59, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
::wp:blockno ↗ Nesshunter (talk) 12:47, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Draft:Bitget
So I spent a whole weekend on write interesting article just for getting rejection in a few seconds without any direction? What's wrong, explain please, thank you Antonio Vinzaretti (talk) 08:04, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
:'''Quantum<sup>Realm</sup>''' take a look on ByBit ↗ lol. If you decline my draft, then nominate to deletion this page which based only on primary sources, thank you. It will be fair Antonio Vinzaretti (talk) 10:10, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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As Israeli, I find it absurde that the English page about this person is defined by you as "not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia ↗.". Dror is one of the key leaders in Israel, Personaly I'm part of a comunitry of close to 100,000 people that follow him daily on his whatsapp groups. (check is social media) - he is being quated and interviewed almost every day etc etc. https://x.com/faniaoz/status/1771595428573712817?s=20
I edited parts that were wrong, and this page need to be restored ASAP as it makes Wikipedia looks like a political tool which tries to hide the people that are working to change the Israeli goverment.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
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- An RfC ↗ is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions ↗ to (community designated) contentious topics procedure ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
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- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review ↗ has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period ↗ (3b) and administrator elections ↗ (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms ↗ (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report ↗.
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- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531 ↗
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- The arbitration case ''Conflict of interest management ↗'' has been closed.
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- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
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- Phase II ↗ of the 2024 RfA review ↗ has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I ↗.
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- The Nuke ↗ feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351 ↗
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- The arbitration case ''Venezuelan politics ↗'' has been closed.
- The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles ↗, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
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- Following an RfC ↗, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion ↗: C4 ↗, which {{tq|applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past}}.
- A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss whether Notability (species) ↗ should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline ↗.
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- Following a motion ↗, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of ''World War II and the history of Jews in Poland'' ↗ (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
- Remedy 3C ↗ of the ''German war effort'' case ↗ ("{{noping|Cinderella157}} German history topic ban") was suspended ↗ for a period of six months.
- The arbitration case Historical Elections ↗ is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
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- Editors can now enter into good article review circles ↗, an alternative for informal ''quid pro quo ↗'' arrangements, to have a GAN ↗ reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
- A '''New Pages Patrol backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed ↗. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024
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- Administrator elections ↗ are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship ↗ (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up ↗ from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase ↗ from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting ↗ from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections ↗.
- Following a discussion ↗, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 ↗ to F2 ↗. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
- A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall ↗ process.
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- The arbitration case ''Historical elections ↗'' has been closed.
- An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion ↗ has been opened.
- Editors are invited to '''nominate themselves ↗''' to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until ''23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC)''.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
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- Following a discussion ↗, the discussion-only period ↗ proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship ↗ (RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following a request for comment ↗, Administrator recall ↗ is adopted as a policy.
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- Mass deletions done with the Nuke ↗ tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. {{phab|T366068}}
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- {{noping|RoySmith}}, {{noping|Barkeep49}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the Electoral Commission ↗ for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗. {{noping|ThadeusOfNazereth}} and {{noping|Dr vulpes}} are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections ↗.
- The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers ↗ for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
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- Following an RFC ↗, the policy on restoration of adminship ↗ has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard ↗ within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
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- Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon ↗, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships ↗ is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.
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- Following an RFC ↗, Wikipedia:Notability (species) ↗ was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline ↗.
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- Administrators can now nuke ↗ pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. {{phab|T380846}}
- A '<code>Recreated</code>' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges ↗ and Special:NewPages ↗. {{phab|T56145}}
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- The arbitration case ''Palestine-Israel articles 5 ↗'' has been closed.
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News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2025).
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- A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
- A series of 22 mini-RFCs ↗ that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process ↗ has been closed (see the summary of the changes ↗).
- A request for comment ↗ is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections ↗ should be held.
- A new filter has been added to the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. {{phab|T378488}}
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool. {{phab|T376378}}
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- The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission ↗ are だ*ぜ ↗, Arcticocean ↗, Ameisenigel ↗, Emufarmers ↗, Faendalimas ↗, Galahad ↗, Nehaoua ↗, Renvoy ↗, Revi C. ↗, RoySmith ↗, Teles ↗ and Zafer ↗ as members, with Vermont ↗ serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2025 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4 ↗, AramilFeraxa ↗, Daniuu ↗, KonstantinaG07 ↗, MdsShakil ↗ and XXBlackburnXx ↗.
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News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2025).
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- '''Sign up ↗''' for The Core Contest ↗, a competition running from 15 April to 31 May to improve vital articles ↗.
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News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2025).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''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 {{t|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.
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- A '''New Pages Patrol backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in May 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed ↗. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2025).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- An RfC ↗ is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF ↗ and its affiliates.
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- A new feature called '''Multiblocks ↗''' will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard ↗.
- History merges ↗ performed using the mergehistory special page ↗ are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC ↗ and the resolution of T118132 ↗.
- An arbitration case named ''Indian military history ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.
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- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ↗ election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki ↗ and '''cast your vote here! ↗'''
- An '''Articles for Creation backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings ↗. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is happening in June 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2025).
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- Following a talk page discussion ↗, speedy deletion criterion G13 ↗ has been amended ↗ to remove "Userspace with no content except the article wizard ↗ placeholder text."
- WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts ↗ was upgraded to a guideline following a RfC discussion ↗.
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- The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ will run from 1{{nbsp}}July to 30{{nbsp}}September. '''Sign up now ↗'''!
- Administrator elections ↗ will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA ↗ that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2025).
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- Following a request for comment ↗, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15 ↗, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model ↗ (LLM) without human review.
- Following a request for comment ↗, there is a new policy ↗ outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts ↗. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ↗ ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- Administrators can now restrict the "Add a Link" feature to newcomers. The "Add a Link" ↗ Structured Task helps new account holders get started with editing ↗. Administrators can configure this setting in the Community Configuration ↗ page.
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- The arbitration case ''Indian military history ↗'' has been closed.
- * South Asia (WP:CT/SA ↗) is designated a contentious topic ↗. The topic area is specifically defined as {{tq|All pages related to the region of South Asia ↗ (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.}}
- * The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka ↗ (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan ↗ (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
- * The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups ↗ (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
- The arbitration case ''Article titles and capitalisation 2 ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
- The arbitration case ''Transgender healthcare and people ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.
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- Wikimania 2025 ↗ is happening in Nairobi ↗, Kenya ↗, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania ↗. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here ↗ now.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2025).
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- An RfC ↗ is open on whether use of emojis ↗ with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15 ↗.
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- Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration ↗ list page. This makes it easier to find. {{phab|T393240}}
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- The arbitration case ''Article titles and capitalisation 2 ↗'' has been closed.
- An RfC ↗ is in progress to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
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- After a motion ↗, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections at WP:AELOG/P ↗. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g. <code><nowiki>WP:CT/BLP ↗</nowiki></code>), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.
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- The speedy deletion criteria U5 ↗ has been repealed, with U6 ↗ and U7 ↗ replacing it. See the FAQ ↗ for more clarifications.
- Community-designated contentious topics ↗ may now be enforced and appealed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) ↗ as a result of an RfC ↗.
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- You can enable a handy user info card ↗ next to usernames, which when clicked displays edit count, blocks, thanks, and other information. To enable this feature, visit {{Preferences|Appearance|Advanced options|check={{int:checkuser-userinfocard-enable-preference-description}}}}
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- The arbitration case ''Transgender healthcare and people ↗'' has been closed
- * Uninvolved administrators may impose an AE participation restriction ↗ on any thread at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard ↗.
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is happening in November 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗
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- Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account ↗ associated with their edits.
- Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory ↗ is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). {{phab|T382958}}
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- All general sanctions ↗ imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard ↗ (WP:AE ↗) as a result of a recent RfC ↗.
- Due to the result of a recent RFC ↗, the administrator recall ↗ process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election ↗, whichever is later.
- Changes ↗ to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy ↗'s disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE ↗ for more information.
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- Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|Aoidh}}, {{noping|Asilvering}}, {{noping|Girth Summit}}, {{noping|Guerillero}}, {{noping|HJ Mitchell}}, {{noping|HouseBlaster}}, {{noping|Izno}}, {{noping|Sdrqaz}}, {{noping|SilverLocust}}.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2026
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- Due to the result of a recent motion ↗, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement ↗ noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict ↗ topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.
- Voting in the 2026 Steward elections ↗ started on 06 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC) and will end on 27 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ for current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2026
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- Following an RfC ↗, the web archival service archive.today ↗ has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed ↗.
- A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 ↗ in favour of handling such redirects through RfD ↗.
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- Following a motion ↗, remedy 9.1 ↗ of the ''Conduct in deletion-related editing'' case has been amended to limit {{noping|TenPoundHammer}} to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
- Following a motion ↗, the ''Iskandar323 further POV pushing'' motion has been rescinded.
- The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion ↗ rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.
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- Following the 2026 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09 ↗, AmandaNP ↗, Barras ↗, Count Count ↗, M7 ↗, SHB2000 ↗, Teles ↗ and VIGNERON ↗.
- An Unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗
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- The content of Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models ↗ has been updated following a request for comment ↗. It now prohibits using LLMs to generate content, with exceptions for translation and copy-editing.
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- Following a motion ↗, the GSCASTE ↗ extended-confirmed restriction in the ''Indian military history'' case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy ↗ has been amended accordingly.
- The arbitration case ''Pbsouthwood ↗'' has been closed.
- The arbitration case ''Maghreb ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2026
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- Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055 ↗).
- The autoconfirmed ↗ user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484 ↗).
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- The arbitration case ''SchroCat ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
- Per a recent motion ↗, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue ↗ are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
- Per a recent motion ↗, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
- The arbitration case ''Maghreb ↗'' has been closed.
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- The May 2026 administrator elections ↗ are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ↗ ends May 5.
- The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election ↗ is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions ↗ close on May 10.
- A '''new noticeboard ↗''' for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2026
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- Following an RfC ↗, the "persistent usage of large language models ↗" has been included as a common reason for a block ↗.
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- Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats ↗: Bureaucrats ↗ without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119 ↗, T423120 ↗)
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- The arbitration case ''SchroCat ↗'' has been closed.
- The arbitration case ''Michael Jackson ↗'' has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.
- Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election ↗ closes on 1 June.
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- A request for comment ↗ asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.
- A request for comment ↗ proposes an addendum for the Real name section of the Username policy ↗.
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- The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429 ↗)
- The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block ↗ for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account ↗. (phab:T427125 ↗)
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- Following a series of motions ↗, changes to the contentious topics procedure ↗ to restructure awareness ↗ have been implemented.
- The arbitration case ''Michael Jackson ↗'' has been closed.
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- The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ will run from 1{{nbsp}}July to 30{{nbsp}}September. '''Sign up now ↗'''!
- 10 candidates have been appointed ↗ to the U4C.
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