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			The one and only F-O-Z-Z-I-E. No, in all seriousness, I am editing sporadically (again, mostly about things that catch my attention.) I'm doing ok (a two+ year battle to get disability benefits is finally coming to an end). Nice to see somethings never change. ] (]) 20:18, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
			:Amongst the things that never change. Trying to get the last few years archived. (hey, you let something go uncleaned for a few years and let's see how you deal with all the dust bunnies :)) 20:22, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
			== Administrators' newsletter – August 2020 ==
	==Happy New Year==
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	:Many thanks! And thank you for your job as a member of the ArbCom the last few years. I know how much work you put into it :) ] (]) 14:32, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
			] from the past month (July 2020).
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	Are you subscribed to clerks-l? If not, which address do you want to be subscribed at? - ] &#124; <sup>] and ]</sup> 06:51, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:Yes, I was added :) Thanks though for asking. ] (]) 07:04, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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	== Domer ==
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	Hi Fozz have you see the latest offerings of Misortie against Domer such as calling him a fuckwit and a twat and putting a speedy deletion tag on his user page this is blatant trolling. <span style="border:1px solid green;padding:0px;">]</span> 11:22, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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	: Also calling him a . Not being paranoid but it is amazing that no one spots these attacks. <span style="border:1px solid green;padding:0px;">]</span> 11:26, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:: Just got up. Didn't appreciate being called a troll myself, but let me see what is going on ] (]) 17:56, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:::I see the editor has apologized and disengaged. Let's see if it sticks. I did put my two cents on their talk page. ] (]) 18:22, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:::: Fair enough the editor apologised and civility blocks are not my thing but I get 2 week block for saying someone was a "fucking fantasist" when they lied about me yet this editor can call another editor a cunt, fuckwit and a twat and you just say aggression was met with aggression, these double standards have got to stop. I wonder what would have happened had I called someone that or if Domer had? <span style="border:1px solid green;padding:0px;">]</span> 19:58, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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			== Administrators' newsletter – September 2020 ==
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	Hi, SirFozzie, and thank you for your recent oversight to the page ] As you can see , an abuse filter blocked the brunt of the attack. I was wondering if you could provide me with a description of how the edits that did make it through got around the filter? Thanks. ] ]</font> 17:41, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:Hey. Sent you an email. ] (]) 17:57, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
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	I hope you don't mind that I'm writing here, but I think what I said at ] is likely to be buried in responses very quickly. While I greatly appreciate what you're doing, I think you're moving much too fast on this, and it's not clear, to me at least, the scope of the problem you're trying to address. It seems like what you're doing is going to greatly expand what can be considered wheel-warring, which is going to be extremely drama-inducing. Once and only once in my nearly 4 years as an admin was I accused of wheel-warring, and it was because I had taken what I thought was a routine maintenance action on a page that, unbeknownst to me, was the subject of previous controversial action. It was very disconcerting to have that term, which is about the dirtiest word there is around here, appear on my talk page. I really want to urge you in the strongest possible terms not to make it harder to do the routine work most of spend our time on. Don't forget, you arbcom folks spend all your time looking at controversial actions (and trust me, I know that we're all in your debt for that). But as someone who deals with the routine stuff, where lasting controversy appears incredibly rarely, I really think the system may be a lot less broken than you think. Thanks. ] 05:43, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
			:*Following a ], the minimum length for ] discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
	::I have thought about it for many months, actually. Yes, a great majority of the actions that are taken by administrators are in no way, shape or form controversial. What I'm trying to stop is instances where a block was taken based on discussion, etcetera, and someone comes charging in says "No. I don't agree with you or the discussion, so I'm going to undo the action." I hope there's a way to balance the two. Actions like the one I describe above let disputes fester on and grow worse and worse. ] (]) 05:57, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
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	Can you take a look at this user, Zenne? Wikipéire socks have been targeting the ] page recently, changing "Republic of Ireland" to "Ireland", and therefore the page was semi-protected for a month on the 10 December, at my request. A few hours after the protection expired earlier on today, this new user, on their first edit, changed Republic of Ireland to Ireland, and cited "changes in the manual of style", so this user doesn't seem like a newcomer.
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	Can you have a look at this? --] <sup>(] <span style="font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;·</span> ])</sup> 21:14, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
			] from the past month (September 2020).
	:I am not a new user, irrespective of what's happened on the page before, the edit is based on new consensus formed by the update of WP:IMOS. Misplaced Pages shouldn't lose out because an editor doesn't like a policy.] (]) 21:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::It's not because I don't like any policy, I'm just doing it because he/she is a banned user. IMOS states nothing in favour of using simply Ireland in this article anyway. --] <sup>(] <span style="font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;·</span> ])</sup> 21:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::Blocked as a sockpuppet account. ] (]) 21:59, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:::Thanks :) --] <sup>(] <span style="font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;·</span> ])</sup> 22:02, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	This subject has suffered from Graves' Disease, which causes ocular proptosis. Various people who may be part of a paid network of wreckers who tamper with the biogs of people who disagree with global warming have repeatedly inserted an obviously offensive photo of the subject that exploits his physical disability by making a feature of the proptosis in a ludicrous way. Please refer these people - one of them is ChrisO, who has been warned before - to the arbitration committee. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 02:02, 10 January 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
	:I've received this request, but not sure that ARbCom is the best way to handle this, but I will look into it a bit. ] (]) 01:59, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	==BLP drive==
	Sign me up for a formal BLP drive. Since the end of December I started spending sometime on articles in the BLP category showing no references. The situation is more of less the same as the last time I looked 6 months ago with the biggest challenge being BLP articles about people from non-English speaking countries. So, for the work to be successful we need people that are proficient in several languages to help.
			] from the past month (October 2020).
	We have too many articles about athletes and politicians with no sources in English to verify the information. These are generated from a list or roster with only foreign language sources available. Usually, I can confirm that they are not a hoax article but have no way of verifying the information is about one person and not a blend of several people with similar names. So they pass notability guidelines but can't be easily improved. :-(
	In general, many of the BLP tagged as unreferenced do have at least one or two sources on the page somewhere that show that they are real people, and only need clean up to bring them up to '''my minimum standard'''. If there are no sources available, then I prod them.
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	A good place for people to start is with their own early articles. I'm working on few of mine that are below my standard. ]] 10:40, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::Good to hear, Flo.. I don't know how/when we're going to get this off the ground, but it might be one of several issues we need to look at here. ] (]) 21:27, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:::Thinking about this more. I think a cross wiki multi-language BLP drive across all Wikimedia projects would have the best chance for success. Something that lasts for the whole first quarter of 2010 with the goal of getting every BLP article sourced that does not have references to support the reason for notability and basic content. This would include all types of WMF projects. Banner announcements and updates about the progress... Something like this could have an impact. I'll write something up and see if we can get enough interest to push it forward. ]] 05:05, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:::Great. Keep me updated. I can think of others who would be interested in such a BLP drive! ] (]) 20:13, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
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	Hi. I remember a while ago you helped me out with something and wanted to know if you're taking on students/padawans of the[REDACTED] arts. ] (]) 15:53, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:Not right now, being an Arbitrator does take a lot of my time up, but I'm always willing to answer questions, if you don't mind a slight delay before I answer them! ] (]) 01:34, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	In edit summaries, please distinguish between "re-signing" and "resigning," or you are going to scare someone. Regards, ] (]) 18:05, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
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	: Agreed, that edit summary startled the heck out of me! --]]] 18:15, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
	::er, oops? (laughs) sorry all! :) ] (]) 18:32, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
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	Is this case before Arbcom? Based on ]'s notation, I assume Someone emailed Arbcom and the issue is before the committee. If so, I would like to see the discussion. ] (]) 20:12, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::The discussion is being handled privately as there is material we cannot reveal due to the privacy policy. (checkuser, etcetera). As soon as we can say more, we will. ] (]) 20:15, 17 January 2010 (UTC)] (]) 20:15, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:Ok, wanted to verify, If you can, please let me know when it iss public. keep up the good work :) ] (]) 22:19, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
	:I see you oversighted my blocking rationale. Should I have used something different in the initial block? Cheers, ] (]) 23:51, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
	:: Actually, I oversighted it. Basically, there was a clear accusation of a criminal act in the block rationale. In future, it's best not to say things like that, especially when the account has been connected to a RL identity - ] <sup>]</sup> 00:14, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
	::: I obviously can't see it now, but I thought I had written "allegations of..." in the rationale, trying to balance the concerns you raised with the importance of giving a clear and unambiguous block reason that wouldn't be undone without appropriate consultation. What would have been the ideal thing to say for an initial block in such circumstances? Cheers, ] (]) 03:49, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::: You actually ''hadn't'', but yeah - something like what Fozzie put, and it should be related to WP policy. Certainly not suggestions of criminal activity! - ] <sup>]</sup> 04:27, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::Tsk, shame on me for acting too hastily. Thanks for the feedback, but here's hoping I don't have another opportunity to actually put it to use! :-) ] (]) 18:56, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::::Not a problem. The whole situation is problematic, and our hands are really tied. If the person IS what they say they are, we have a whole can of worms. and if it's NOT who they say they are, that's a whole different can of worms. In either case, we get worms :P ] (]) 18:57, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
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	I was asked to help bring the article ] up to GA or FA status and I happily agreed. However, this being ]s, I wanted to make sure the article, or some sub section of it, was in fact not covered by the topic ban. Per comments here and what seems to me like plain common sense it wouldn't be. But it's better to be 100%. Or is this non-trivial enough to make a formal request for clarification? Thank you.] (]) 04:18, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::My first thought is that it wouldn't be covered, but I'd like to remind you that depending on what the edits ennumerate, the article may not be covered under the topic ban but edits (if they in general would fall under the topic area) may. Just my ultra very quick .02 on the issue. ] (]) 04:33, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::Thanks.] (]) 06:57, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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	Hi. You stated (on the 5th) that you were going to be inactive on all upcoming cases, but it appears you are active on a number of Arb related matters. Would you like your status to be updated? ] <sup>]</sup> 07:49, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
	:Um.. read that again? "I will be going active on all new cases, and the Tothwolf case. Thanks! SirFozzie (talk) 19:34, 5 January 2010 (UTC)" ] (]) 08:00, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
	::I am embarrassed now. I read it as "inactive." Sorry to bother you, ] <sup>]</sup> 08:03, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::Ha, Tiptoety made an error! I knew it would happen eventually. *tee, hee* ]<small><sup>]</sup>]</small> 23:37, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::Tee hee? I've never seen such language from the Puppy before. What's next, "neener neener"? :D (grins and ducks) ] (]) 23:45, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::: *sad* I was afraid the humor wouldn't come across, and thought that would make it clear I was giving a sideways compliment in what was intended to be a humorous fashion... but now I'm being *mocked* by Fozzie! *walks off forlornly, crying bitterly* ]<small><sup>]</sup>]</small> 02:02, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::::Awww damnit, I can't resist sad puppy eyes. *gives the puppy a cookie* ] (]) 02:06, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::::Happy puppy!!! :-) ]<small><sup>]</sup>]</small> 12:51, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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	This looks like arbcomm at it worst. Abd has been blocked for which is ''nothing to do with me''. You're shooting the messenger ] (]) 08:49, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:I'm saying it would be for the best if he stopped mentioing you and you him (that way keeping him from saying "he's started it and I can't talk back" ] (]) 08:52, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
			] from the past month (November 2020).
	:: Seems a thin justification for sanctionning me. I think I'm being sanctionned on the basis of no misbehaviour at all. Can you point to any problematic edits on my part since this began? ] (]) 09:20, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:::I don't think we're going to come to a meeting of the minds, so to speak, but I'll state it again. If someone needs to follow up on anything Abd says, it doesn't need to be you, does it? I'm sure that with an editor of Abd's.. history shall we say, that if he crosses the line someone will be there to say something. ] (]) 16:15, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:::: No, it doesn't need to be me. But nor do you need to santion me. You've said, yourself, that I'm not the problem in this - but yet you're going to sanction me anyway. You call that just? ] (]) 23:03, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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	You'll have more later if/when my scanner drivers ever finish downloading so I can scan the thing in question as well. <font face="Celtic">]<sub>'']''</sub></font> 14:44, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
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	Can you seriously suggest another way we could have forced this long-term disgrace without direct action? I agree that it would be better if admins played "in the rules" and through discussion to get the necessary done, but you know that was never going to deliver, and I can't exactly be accused of not trying and trying again, can I? Happy to be cleared, castrated, garrotted, or whatever is felt necessary, and I certainly never expected to be commended. But truly, there was no other way, and you know it. If Misplaced Pages wants people to play within the rules, then it needs to create rules that work, and work for BLP, it has singularly failed to do that, and so chaos will follow. That's regrettable, but the alternative is a continuing inertia on long-term pressing ethical issues, and that is unacceptable.--] 09:30, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::For example, Lar. Case already filed. Things already looked at. ArbCom trying to find a way to handle this. And he goes and does it again, after two people blocked and numerous screaming imprecations. I'm sorry. There was a better way then to say "I regret I have but one admin bit to give for my BLP-try" and march the administrators in to face the whiff of grape. As I said, I;m willing to say you had BLP on your side and that you were right, but I'm not willing to commend you for how it happened. I can understand if you disagree, but it's a principle I'm standing by. ] (]) 09:39, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:::As I say, not too worried about commendation. Please reword the motion and support the principle behind it. I've even quite happy to be desysopped or trout slapped if it gets the change.--] 09:57, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::::Unfortunately, that's not possible at this time. I hope my statement makes it clear that I support a majority of the motion however, and others looking at my vote should judge accordingly. ] (]) 10:13, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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	I'm disappointed to see that your are opposing the motion. IMO, the hysterical reaction to what arbcom sees as reasonable admin action needs to be countered by a supportive statement from the Committee. As you well know, the attempt to clean up BLP has stalled for years, and admins need to be motivated to continue to work in this area. I see the statement commending them as a way to encourage them to keep working in the area, while other parts of the statement ask them to use less chaotic methods. I think the sentence is balanced as crafted and does not harm as you seem to think. I see the true harm from admins abandoning their work in the area. ]] 17:36, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
	:The admins doing it were also being jerks. I think there is enough nuance in this world to justify a vote not supporting them being jerks.--] (]) 17:41, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
	::It will be a massive net loss if they stop working to improve BLP. Words of encouragement and recognition for these admins is needed with the additional instructions to use less chaotic means. A blanket call for people to work in this area has much less meaning then giving support to the people that actually do. ]] 18:45, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::I've responded to you privately, Flo. Check your email when you can. ] (]) 19:36, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::Well, there are other costs associated in encouraging them the way the committee has chosen to do, and what justification is there for pigeonholing those who interfered as bureaucratic twits? But yes. The committee chose a side on who they value and who they don't.--] (]) 19:39, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
			] from the past month (December 2020).
	==Coffee==
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	] he is threatening to block several editors. I thought you would be interested after he edited that protected page.] 06:04, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:Thank you sirfozzie. It is rare that I have an arbcom member grace my page, they usually just try to ignore me as a pest.
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	:Not sure what part you were laughing about, how I slaughter your name? ] 01:22, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
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	Just wanted to commend your well-reasoned and level-headed handling of the recently-passed BLP motion. ] (]) 22:16, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
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	I know it is the policy of some arbcoms to delete barnstars, so my feelings won't be hurt.
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	I like it :-) Thank you for making a strong show of support for changes in the way the way that we handle BLP content. It is important for the Community to understand that change is coming. ]] 01:53, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
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	Hi SirFozzie, you've declined my request and asked me to show the patternt of Jéské Couriano edits.
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	I could not do it at the request because I am allowed only 500 words, but here is the pattern:
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	:It shows he has been uncivil, or a little over the top yes, but not anything with regards to administrative tools, for example.. and I happen to agree with him about the nature of some of those "personal armies" generated over at /b/ ] (]) 07:10, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
	::I see that in your opinion the statement "Administrators are expected to lead by example and to behave in a respectful, civil manner in their interactions with others" should be taken off ? Well, thanks for your input. Sorry I bothered you. I've no more questions. Warm regards.--] (]) 07:01, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
	:::No, I am not saying that (and I would please request that you NOT put words in my mouth. I do that quite well enough on my own, thanks :)). If you have a user conduct issue with Jeske, please consider opening a ]. Coming to ArbCom as the FIRST line of dispute resolution, not the last, is not going to get you what you want, here. I know the temptation is great, as we can do that which you desire as a resolution, (the removal of Jeske as an administrator), but except for very rare circumstances, we do NOT take issues as the first line of Dispute Resolution. ] (]) 07:10, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
			] from the past month (February 2021).
	::::Sorry I misunderstood you. I've no "a user conduct issue with Jeske". I am nobody now. Jeske said "Mbz1's done.", and I assure you, I am done. So no, I've no "a user conduct issue with Jeske", but I naively thought Misplaced Pages might have. I see I was mistaking. Once again I sorry I bothered you. Warm regards.--] (]) 07:23, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
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	Could you (or any other admin watching) possibly renew the range block on ? I asked Alison but she's a bit busy apparently, and he's been back disrupting as {{IPvandal|84.203.37.67}} and {{IPvandal|84.203.43.218}}. Thanks. <font face="Celtic">]<sub>'']''</sub></font> 11:43, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
	:Unrelated, but no point creating a similarly titled section....if you could confirm the details I've emailed you. Thanks. <font face="Celtic">]<sub>'']''</sub></font> 13:33, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
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	...a ] is talking about you on ]. ] <small>(] ] ] ])</small> 16:49, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
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	:Thanks Ioeth. Taken care of now. (they should really read ] during their month off :/ ] (]) 17:23, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
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	Hello SirFozzie, I hope you are doing well. :) I see a minor spelling thing did you mean "shunt", or "shut..." ? Yours, ''']''' (]) 01:29, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
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	:Shunt as in divert. :) ] (]) 01:31, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
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	== ] is being used excessively by Wikipéire. Should it be blocked? ==
			] from the past month (March 2021).
	As you can see by the IP's contributions (and location, Madrid), 194.179.120.4 is being used by Wikipéire. I've tried to put sock notices on the talk page, but he's constantly removing them. Should this IP be blocked? --] <sup>(] <span style="font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;·</span> ])</sup> 16:09, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
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	:I'll try to have a word with a checkuser about collateral damage and/or a range block. ] (]) 16:10, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
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	::Alison has now done a checkuser and the IP has been blocked for one week. I'll keep an eye on it though :) --] <sup>(] <span style="font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;·</span> ])</sup> 01:30, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
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	:: Someone's watching yer talkpage, Foz! ^_^ - ] <sup>]</sup> 01:32, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
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	== Minor formatting ==
			:*Following a ], ] (invalid fair-use claim) ] has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
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	, seems minor formatting is need to have Mailer Diablo show up as the first "abstain" number. ''']''' (]) 19:27, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
			:*When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a ] problem. ({{phab|T278350}})
	:Looks better now. Thanks, ''']''' (]) 19:32, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
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	::NP. Thanks for the poke, Cirt :) ] (]) 19:33, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
	:::], ''']''' (]) 19:34, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
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	Hi SirFozzie, FYI: , , . ] ] 20:11, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
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	::Thanks Paul, Much appreciated :) ] (]) 20:14, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
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	==Ping ==
	I have sent you an e-mail. --] (]) 20:44, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
	:received, and in discussion at the ArbCom level. ] (]) 04:35, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
			] from the past month (April 2021).
	==Minibreak==
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	Hey all, taking a mini break of about 72 hours or so. Normal service should resume on the weekend. No need to move me to inactive, but if there's anything I absolutely NEED to know, email me :) ] (]) 04:35, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
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	::OK, I'm back! ] (]) 18:45, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
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	I filed the ArbCom request for Brews ohare which went on mostly over your Wikibreak. I am asking you to please review the request carefully, taking note of the selfless and difficult steps taken by uninvolved editors (Count Iblis, ProfStandWellBack, CosineKitty) to strongly support Brews. I hope that my blunt style did not put you off. If I have violated etiquette by either my actions there or my writing here, please let me know, and I apologize in advance.] (]) 19:32, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
			:*Following ], consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
			:*] was closed with no consensus. ] for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.
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	== Just in case you get a chance ==
			:*The user group <code>oversight</code> will be renamed to <code>suppress</code>. This is for ]. You can comment at {{phab|T112147}} if you have objections.
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	Hey Fozzie. Hope your good. Sorry to bother you with an ani request but I know you looked at this before. But if you get a chance could you ]. I know how draining this issue is but I could use a hand--] <sup>]</sup> 22:28, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
			:*The ] on the Arbitration Committee ] was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.
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	:I just posted a response to your recent comment. However I think its worth saying there that in the middle of last year just stopping HighKing and others from inserting or removing the term would have been attractive. However we have got HighKing to use the task force and to accept the results of discussions there, which have been reasonably even handed. However the sheer obstinacy of Mister Flash means that progress is only made with great difficulty. When BlackKite was involved we got somewhere, and we need some admin help on the task force. It would be worth your while casting your eye over the actual cases there to that we did make some progress. I also put some work into a protocol (see link on ANI thread) which got support and might (with modification) form the basis of a resolution. Either way, the point of posting here was to say that there have been some changes in behaviour over the last six months in HighKing (and he has broadened his editing habits) which should be encouraged. --] <small><sup>]</sup></small> 07:59, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
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	==Add a "public interest" clause to Oversight==
	A proposal to add a "public interest" clause to ] has started at ]. <span style="border: 1px #F10; background-color:cream;">''']''' *]</span> 10:17, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
			] from the past month (May 2021).
	== Iñaki de Juana Chaos' biography ==
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	Why have you removed all the additions I made and restored the version that the vandals are so desperate to keep in spite of all the data I added? <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 21:34, 17 February 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
			:*] to deprecate ].
	:I have commented on your page. I urge you to re-read Misplaced Pages's policies that I link to on your page. ] (]) 21:35, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
			:*Following a ] the Book namespace was deprecated.
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	I'm new to Misplaced Pages so sorry about any confusion I might have created. As far as I know, if anyone wants to contest something that is written they should justify it. All I have done is add information all of which is sourced. I am a researcher at a higher education institution so I don't understand why my data is being deleted. What part of the data is being considered unsourced or false? I have spent the whole day trying to dispute lies about a convicted terrorist by providing evidence that judges have used in a court of justice. From your background, it seems that you don't speak Spanish or Basque and the same goes for the vandals that deleted all the information without any discussion. How can you know all of it is false when you don't even understand any of the evidence? For your information you have just deleted the names of several victims of ETA's murders as though they were POV. TELL me specifically what is it that you think may be false or biased.] (]) 21:44, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
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			] '''Arbitration'''
	:Well, first off.. Welcome to Misplaced Pages :).
			:*After a ], the Arbitration Committee modified ] of the ''Antisemitism in Poland'' case. This means sourcing expectations are a ] instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the ] to discuss disputed sources.
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	:I speak very little spanish (took a year or so of language classes when I was in school), and do not speak Basque. However, that's not what I and other people are concerned about here. I linked the ] for a reason. Let me copy some of the things that you said that were quite frankly, non-neutral...
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	:"According to the Spanish Constitution (paradoxically reviled by Chaos and other terrorists)"
	:" It should be noted that as cruel as the Spanish Constitution, state, governments, and judges are supposed to be according to ETA terrorists"
	:"This fact contributes to create further confusion when comparing Basque secessionism to Irish or Palestinian terrorist activities behind emancipatory movements: It is unthinkable that Michael Collins or Bobby Sands would have been born to native British soldiers or that Khaled Mashal´s father in law had been a Mossad agent."
			] from the past month (June 2021).
	These statements come no where NEAR NPOV, and are ] as well. I don't claim that this person is a good person, I'm just saying that what we have on the article has to be written succinctly and neutrally, and unfortunately, what you're putting in there, is most emphatically, neither of the two. ] (]) 21:51, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
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	This is insane! ETA revile the Spanish Constitution. They claim that it is Franco's legacy and that it was imposed on them in the constitutional referendum since the Constitution was not approved by a majority of Basques in the Basque Country although it was in Navarra.] (]) 22:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
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	It is a paradox to revile the same constitution and consider it a fascist constitution while you seek its protection with the cooperation of International Amnesty. The Ribbentrop-Molotov non-agression pact before WWII was a paradox and I don't see anybody getting banned for saying that. To say that these two diplomats "paradoxically signed a pact" is historically accurate for it seems hard to understand two declared enemies militarily and politically would sign a pact. Paradoxes exist SirFrozzie. Not to mention all the documentation you deleted including letters and facts regarding this person's life. You have deleted everything!!!! Who is the next authority above you?] (]) 22:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
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	One of the letters you removed states clearly that ETA compares and models itself after other terrorist organizations. ETA has even signed treaties with IRA, FARC and the LPO and leaders from these organizations are often quoted by ETA in their communiques. This is basic history SirFozzie. On almost every trial in which a terrorist is being judged, the first thing ETA members state is that they do not recognize the authority of the Spanish constitution, its laws, and its judges, again, common knowledge SirFozzie: it is ETA members who say these things not me. I'd quote from them but you would delete that too like you did with everything else.
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	I don't know if you sent this to my talk page or if one of these lying vandals did it but if you did it is shameful:
	''I have fully protected the article. Remember, articles on WP have to be written to A Neutral Point of View, and that goes doubly so for articles dealing with people, especially Biographies of Living People. Your information seems to fail those policies, and I urge you to cease and desist. SirFozzie (talk) 21:34, 17 February 2010 (UTC)''
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	Why would you urge me to cease and desist when you haven't read any of the information that has been deleted? Why don't you urge the people who vandalized the page to desist from removing truthful information? What criteria did you use to deem my comments lies and their deletions trustworthy?(] (]) 22:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC))
	] (]) 22:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
	:If I were you, I'd pick my next edit summary carefully. ]] 22:26, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
	::Agreed. Genericcoop, I'm trying to help you here.. you are not doing your case any good here. Yes I did, and as I suggested, I suggest you read them before you edit any further. ] (]) 22:36, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
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	I have spent the last hour looking for any justifications for the deletions or any explanations for why these things are not neutral. Where is your argument? Is there a separate page where you have posted any explanations? I have refreshed my article page and it shows the same bunch of bull that was written before I edited the page. Are you telling me none of this is non-neutral?
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	On January 10, 2009, de Juana participated in a Peace March held in ], ]. The purpose of the march was to express grievances against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza and to express hopes for peace to the Irish government. However, Spanish newspapers, such as elmundo.es, expressed disgust that de Juana, having been convicted of causing many deaths, would be so duplicitous as to publicly march for peace.
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	Where is the source for this information? Why haven't you deleted it? You have deleted all the information I provided including all sources and yet you have not checked for errors or unsourced statements any of the existing paragraphs. This whole biography is propaganda. Regarding your advice or anybody else's: I don't care what you think. You have deleted truthful information and any threats regarding anybody's right to contest your authority or the validity of your claims are abuse of power. Who is the next authority above an administrator? Every hour that goes by without you restoring the insults that this unrepentant murderer uttered adds on to the pain of their relatives. (] (]) 23:27, 17 February 2010 (UTC))
			] '''Guideline and policy news'''
	Why is ETA referred to as a paramilitary group or, even worse, as a separatist group? What makes ETA, ETA is the fact that they intimidate, kidnap, blackmail, and kill people. I know many separatist groups that don't engage in any of the above. Listing ETA as a separatist group is like listing Hitler as as a vegetarian, or Stalin as a seminarist: true but irrelevant and misleading. There are many separatist organizations that don't engage in these activities and according to Misplaced Pages administrators they are all the same. What historiographic criteria does Misplaced Pages follow here? (] (]) 23:36, 17 February 2010 (UTC))
			:*] to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at ] even after the namespace is removed.
			:*An ] to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to ].
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	De Juana Chaos is listed as a soldier or another similar military category. This man is not a soldier: he placed bombs and blew people up and shot people in the head regardless of whether they were civilians or public officials. Are we saying here that a soldier from a standing army is the same as a terrorist that has confessed to several murders and has explictly said that he did it in order to achieve political goals? (] (]) 23:36, 17 February 2010 (UTC))
			:*IP addresses of unregistered users are to ] from everyone. There is a rough draft of how ]. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed ].
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	I just found out that SirFozzie is a member of the arbitration committee in Misplaced Pages. According to these rules it seems that two administrators have already cooperated in banning these additions. I will wait 48 hours and then will open a RfC. That if I haven't misread the hundreds of pages required to understand how to do anything on Misplaced Pages. I shouldn't have inquired my students about Misplaced Pages... <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 23:46, 17 February 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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	:If you wish to file a RfC, or raise a complaint at ], you can certainly do so if you wish. I doubt you'd be getting the kuind of reception you are hoping for... ] (]) 00:31, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
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	::Do you think he's buggered off for good, or is he just sharpening his axe ready for when the protection expires? <font face="Celtic">]<sub>'']''</sub></font> 14:34, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
			] from the past month (July 2021).
	== Amend Brews_ohare sanctions, or not ==
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	Can we wind up? I think we need a motion, and arbitrators' final thoughts. ] (]) 01:29, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
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	:Hi Brews.. at this time I don't think there is any need for any motions.. it looks like there's no desire to change the remedies as they stand. ] (]) 02:41, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
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	==Final discussion for ] ==
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	Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of ]
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	As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
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	Your opinion on this is welcome. ] 03:29, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
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	== Regarding your point C ==
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	Hello SirFozzie. I read point C on your talk page and decided to pipe up. I don't want to use up your time. I just want to request that you please take a close look at my case, and make sure that you have come to the same conclusion about my editing as has Sandstein (I suppose noting my response to his remarks.) I know that arbcom gave the power to administrators to make such decisions, but there are two issues here. The first is that I don't even think the basis of the call was sound, and I outline why in some detail in my request for amendment (wrongly placed, sorry about that). The second is that I was not even told that I may be subject to discretionary sanctions, which is supposed to be part of the process. Still, no one has made clear which policies I have broken. My point to you is this: if you are going to support Sandstein's decision, then I just request that you make sure you have come to the same conclusions that he has. If it's simply a matter of reemphasising that administrators are allowed to make those calls, without seeing whether they are sound or not, then 1) what role does the appeal process play? and 2) at the very least, I would point out the lack of procedure in this case and call for the decision to be "struck out" (hopefully that's the right legal term). So, if the rationale is that admins have this power, end of story, then I would suggest at least making sure it's being applied within the stipulated rules. I don't mean to harp. I won't write to you again unless I feel it's important. --<font style="bold">]</font><font color="black" style="bold">]</font> 13:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
	:Hi. Thanks for your message.. let me review the situation, may take a day or so to get up to speed. ] (]) 22:21, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
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	I left in a last statement. I only note here so I know it's been read. --<font style="bold">]</font><font color="black" style="bold">]</font> 03:23, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
			:*An ] to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for ] speedy deletions.
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	: I did read that. My personal inclination is to still let this stand, without blocking you off from seeking a community consensus to nullify and/or overturn the sanction. As I said previously, administrators working in the area of ArbCom Enforcement have a large amount of leeway in how they apply sanctions. ] (]) 20:03, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
			:*Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating ] on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. ({{phabricator|T287380}})
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	::Thanks. I need to step up work on my thought-reading machine, because I am just too curious about the collective understanding of committee members on this case. I will probably seek community consensus on it. I'm not sure how that process works, but presumably one part of it may require a fuller elaboration on the rationale for the block, taking into account my response. If the wiki community indeed regards me as a black sheep, then I will have nothing to say. But it will have proven wrong my long held assumptions about the transparency, rationality, and rule-of-law (as opposed to 'rule by man') approach I thought wiki was based on. I really presume that what I'm accused of doing is violating the "spirit of Misplaced Pages" rather than any actually identifiable or specific violation of the rules. One editor who has regularly expressed disapproval of my comments and sourcing has said that. I can also reach no other conclusion based on the process of the AE appeal so far. But my biggest complaint would be how due process has been knowingly ignored. What can ya do? --<font style="bold">]</font><font color="black" style="bold">]</font> 02:43, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
			:*Following an ], the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the ] rule in ] does not apply to ].
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	Final note. I won't apply for any kind of community appeal, and I'm sorry to have wasted your time, my time, and the time of other editors and admins. I saw ] between Shell Kinney and Olaf Stephanos which makes the situation very clear. I had thought that the policies were like a book of law that you just had to stick to and keep within. But it's actually much more about perceptions, social capital, and branding. And nonconformists may have extraordinary measures applied to them. Never mind when propaganda comes from editors who are integrated into Misplaced Pages, and "outsiders" wish to fix things and explicitly follow all relevant rules when doing so. If you are ''seen'' as an advocate, especially for a perceived NRM (but not for science) you are not welcome. It doesn't matter if you are reasonable and law-abiding or not. This is probably just a necessary evil and compromise given Misplaced Pages's openness and potential for real bad guys to exploit the system. I maintain that I am not one of the bad guys, have kept strictly within policy, and have only ever wished for a professional treatment of Falun Gong. I have been polite nearly all the time, and frequently compromised, shared ideas, and worked with whoever was interested to build the pages. I do not want to see a whitewashing or exclusion of criticism. But doing Misplaced Pages properly means no propaganda, stringent sourcing, and inclusion of every significant perspective. All that is explicitly within Misplaced Pages's policies. I am not sure who will have the mettle to challenge the editors dedicated to promoting a negative view of Falun Gong - and their sympathisers - who are seen as part of the community. The silent consent to these ideologically motivated activities allows a page to go from (11,200 words) to (2,500 words).--<font style="bold">]</font><font color="black" style="bold">]</font> 23:53, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	::I have been editing Falun Gong articles on and off for three years now. It has not been easy and I have taken long "FLG holidays" on two previous occasions; I am on another one now. Although he is rumoured to be an employee of The Epoch Times, I can attest to the fact that asdfg has been the most reasonable Falun Gong editor among those I have had the pleasure of working with &ndash;actually, he's the ONLY one who I have productively worked with. I have found he is prepared to work with editors in an non-doctrinaire manner, argues his case by trying to be objective and not always from a Falun Gong perspective, and rarely engages in warring. While I do not regret the absence of the other FLG SPAs, who have caused me a great deal of stress in the past and led to my FLG holidays, I believe asdfg makes a valuable contribution to the project.<p>As for the 'Persecution' article, there does seem to be some loss, but it's important not overstate it. I won't go into any analysis of the material removed, but if we used strictly quantitative measures and compared like with like, the before it got moved and split into two was 10016 words "readable prose size". Today, the stands at 6326 words "readable prose size", while '' stands at 2329 words. ] ] 03:15, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
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	==Blocked ] for "alternate accounts" and attacking another user==
	I agree that "alternate accounts" can be as difficult technically and ethically as "grey" investigations such as organised crime and terrorism as in real life. However, the seems to conceal too much, and thus make the accusation(s) look like policy-state methods:
	* Investigations of "alternate accounts" are difficult, but I'll leave that.
	* WP's policy in "alternate accounts" in general seems rather lax. However, at present I see no general objection against operation of "alternate accounts" by ], and I see no restriction in the terms of ].
	* The complaint is that an unidentified attacking another user. In conduct issues, the complaint should show evidence of the conduct in question and why that violate one or more conduct policies. Where is that evidence shown?
	* The block against ] is only justified if the complain about conduct was shown to be linked to ]. Where is that evidence shown? --] (]) 07:20, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
			] from the past month (August 2021).
	:This is not an alternate account. This is a situation where the account was used to attack another user, who they have a long history with. I will tag the account appropriately. ] (]) 08:52, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	::Tagged the main account. The others were blocked previously. ] (]) 08:56, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	:::If it's CharlesRodriguez, I've just checked and I'm not where or against there was an attack. --] (]) 09:38, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	::::It was created to harass another editor, basically to try to get another user who they've warred with under the Mattise account in an edit war. ] (]) 09:43, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	:::::], AFAIK complaints about conduct are required to be backed up by diffs or history snapshots, but so far I have not seen any in evidence of this complaint. In fact even in cases of ] and ] that I've seen relative recently the diffs are identified, although their content by oversight. Since the alleged complaint(s) against Mattise's alternate account(s) is/are described as an "attack" but apparently without the legal risks of ] and ], I find it hard to see how the complaint(s) should be prosecuted without evidence. --] (]) 10:20, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	::::::::If you don't know the history, Mattisse had a long running conflict with SandyGeorgia. And the new account went after SandyGeorgia in the area of Venezuela edits. ] (]) 10:31, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
	Philcha and my self are both mattisse's mentors per arbitration see ].
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	The fact its a sock look pretty unquestionable. Whether the motivation was to specifically harrasses is in question. It looks to that Mattisse wanted to discuss possible bias on ]. However there are plenty of breaches of ]. --] (]): 11:22, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
			:*Feedback is requested on the ] by the ].
	:Background: This happened before with ]; Mattisse went after him in the same way she went after SG. When confronted with the evidence of a CU in that case, she said that her family was using the computer (or some such excuse). Looking at the most recent contributions, the CharlesRodriguez account was instantly recognizable as Mattisse, as she did very little (if anything) to hide herself, other than using smilies in all the wrong places. I can't possibly imagine what she hoped to achieve with this. My only guess is that she got what she wanted. ] (]) 11:26, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
			:*A ] on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on ].
			:*A ] to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
			:*A ] on the next steps after the trial of ] on ]s has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.
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	], I known since in Jul 2009 that Mattisse had a long running conflict with SandyGeorgia, and I've seen more recently instances. IMO the question is whether the behaviour you allege is misconduct. IMO "And the new account went after SandyGeorgia in the area of Venezuela edits" is vague, as ] is fairly and there's no certain that the relevant article(s) are categorised. Is there any reason not to identify the behaviour you allege is misconduct, so that others can it examine? --] (]) 12:51, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	:If, as her mentor, you can't be bothered to investigate for yourself you might find helpful to bring you up to speed. ] <sup>]</sup> 17:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	:User maintained '''''three'' socks''' to edit recently on Venezuela, at least two of which accused SG of ownership by name. Centralize this discussion at ]. ] '']'' 17:13, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	::How matters is what ] says the block is about, not what others suppose ]'s reasons are. --] (]) 20:08, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
			:*The ] is now open for comments.
	:::You don't seem to understand. I ''blocked these socks'', and SirFozzie based his block on the socks that were caught. We are both arbitrators, and ArbCom discussed the matter. These illegitimate socks are ''exactly'' what the block is about. ] '']'' 20:12, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	As another of Mattisse's mentors, I investigated the block in precious little time before going to work this morning. I found the 3 socks within 20 minutes, and immediately saw their disruptive intent, recognizing the hand of Mattisse. '''I fully support the block''' and the way it was handled to minimize drama; inevitably there will be some anyway, but that is not the fault of the arbitrators and check-users involved. I will comment further on the monitoring page in due course. '']'' 20:23, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	Pending problem: technically, the Monitoring page was set up only for Mattisse and advisors-- not a good place for central discussion, unless we're IARing. ] (]) 21:19, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
			] from the past month (September 2021).
	: This was one of the reasons I posted there, because I think mentors also need space to discuss this. However, if you wikilawyer, then the prohibition perhaps only strictly applies to the monitoring page, not monitoring talk: read the notice at the top of the monitoring talk page. In particular, the diff you added there was helpful. I agree, though, that if editors wish to discuss this more generally, another forum needs to be found, but in my view this has gone beyond the mentoring set-up. '']'' 21:32, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	:: Maybe everyone else can post to the Alerts page, so you all can have the space of the Monitoring page? But I suspect there's not much else to monitor ... ?? ] (]) 21:37, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	:::It is not an ideal place, but I've set up a section there anyway. '']'' 22:05, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	:Oh jeez. I remember that. I'm going to move all the comments to alerts. ] '']'' 22:23, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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	I have completely rephrased my comment on the Catholic Church case, making the analogy to ] explicit, and suggesting a measure which should reduce the drama to the usual dull roar. I would appreciate your comments. ] <small>]</small> 00:04, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
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	The bot left a message to the creator of an article that the article was nominated for AFD and requested him to comment. He was blocked for following these instructions. It is true that the user is controversial, but he was doing what was asked of him.
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			:*Following ], there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.
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	A user following instructions should not be blocked. At most, the user should be warned and told to ignore the instructions.
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	Newyorkbrad <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk%3AKmweber&action=historysubmit&diff=348027677&oldid=348025948</ref> and Luna Santin <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&action=historysubmit&diff=348053393&oldid=348052262</ref> are concerned about this block. Please look into it.
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			:*Following the closure of the ] case, standard discretionary sanctions ] for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
			:*The Arbitration Committee ] to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.
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	If you ask for advice at a government tax office, if they give you the wrong advice, you can usually get the penalty reversed. See
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	{{reflist}} ] (]) 08:17, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
			] from the past month (October 2021).
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	::Kurt has been unblocked. I will not comment on what I think of the block, as I have a significant history with Kurt, and would probably be forced to recuse under any such case, anyway.. so best to say nothing. Thanks for the comment, however. ] (]) 21:44, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
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	:::I am no supporter of Kurt. However, the reason for blocking was very flimsy. If someone said that the reason for block was just an excuse, it would make sense. Forgetting about Kurt, can we come to an agreement that if an editor is given instructions and acts in good faith to follow those instructions, that editor should not be blocked? I do not have a specific instance in mind but I want to know if anyone thinks that makes sense. If it does, I might make a little box, sort of like a user box for future use. ] (]) 03:13, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
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	::::Hi. I'm not sure I agree with that, mind you. If you'll forgive the hypothetical example, let's say person X is barred from entering a certain school's grounds. He gets a flyer saying "come see a play at school X". If he shows up, and gets arrested for that, he can't claim that the generic flyer overwrote the specific sanction against him. That's just my thought. ] (]) 04:13, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
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	:::::My idea is more designed for the situation like an admin saying "just report it to ANI" and upon reporting it, the person is blocked with the excuse "forum shopping". ] (]) 04:17, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
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	In all seriousness, making generalizations about other editors in order to discount their opinions probably isn't a good thing to do, especially in an arbitration decision. Clearly I am in support of Trusilver, and supported Brews as well via ] as I thought it was just a misunderstanding, and I don't consider myself a "highly charged partisan".
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	But this case notwithstanding, Brews went and edited in WP space again and got blocked (predictably) ''after'' this case had clarified that WP space was forbidden. Forehead slap moment. Sheesh. ] (]) 20:29, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
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	:*chuckles*. No, I wasn't referring to you in that statement, but I had people try to tell me that there was community connsensus to unblock.. it was right there on Brews's talk page! I'd hate to think of all the blocks or actions that could be undone because the "usual people" showed up and protested it.. it'd be anarchy, like!. And considering some of the lengths that were gone to in this issue (going to Jimbo's page and saying "ArbCom's corrupt and we're in a Wiki-constitutional crisis! If Jimbo doesn't undo the block/chastise ArbCom/untopic ban Brews ohare (pick one or more) we're all doomed!", for example).. I do feel comfortable in leaving that phrase in. ] (]) 20:34, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
			:* ] of the 2021 ] has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues ]. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.
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	:::OK, as long as you're fine with it, I'll wash my hands. I'm just afraid that the dramahz will be never-ending and that this will continue it.... such a shame, because Brews was a very helpful co-editor of articles. Incidentally, there is a reason why on the arb page, I used the link to the original discussion of Brews' editing of WP space instead of the talk page stuff. I'm frustrated about the rampage on Jimbo's page, which IMO is no way to get away from angst on the drama boards and back to collaboration in article space. I think that both sides need to chill and unplug their internet for a week and realize that yes, it is a human being on the other end who is probably ''not'' a bad person. But I pontificate. ] (]) 20:48, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
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	Thank you for proposing this motion. I hope that it will help prevent future out-of-process interference with ArbCom enforcement. Trusilver strikes me as an otherwise sensible person and I assume that he will be able to regain adminship at some point. What the motion will almost certainly ''not'' do is deter the people you refer to from continuing to post walls of text to any and all fora imaginable, but such is life. <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">]</span></small> 21:02, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
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	SirFozzie, David Tombe can come accross like that, but I have to say that he is correct about Brews. Of course, his choice of words and statements about ArbCom are problematic. But then David is certanly not the only person defending Brews now. Also note that except David, the current editors who support Brews do acknowledge that Brews was to some extent at fault before the original SoL ArbCom case, also about the technical issue he was arguing in favor of. So, in agreement with Awickert, I say that we are certainly not partizan supporters.
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	About the motion, I think that there is no community support for desysopping Trusilver. There seems to be support for a warning to desysop him if he were to act in the same way again (my own view is that he did the right thing and should therefore not be warned or punished at all, but unfortunately my own opinion is not the view of the community in this case).
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	Sandstein is wrong about preventing "future out-of-process interference with ArbCom enforcement". On the ArbCom page I explain how this "out-of-process" unblocking was itself prompted by ArbCom being too harsh when dealing with Brews. If you impose sanctions that are very far removed from dealing with the original case, then that causes an escalation involving more sanctions that are even farther removed frim the original case and at some point some univolved Admnin will think: "this is crazy".
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			] from the past month (November 2021).
	:Hi Count.. thanks for your comment. I think an aggravating factor here is that Trusilver was given multiple chances to nip this in the bud and avoid all this extra drama, and he steadfastly refused to do so every time. In fact, one of his later comments stated that he wished that he had done it sooner. That, I think, is at least an aggravating factor here.
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	:Again, as Coren and I have said (multiple times) the way to deal with sanctions you disagree with is NOT to violate them and then defend yourself with "Well, the sanction's out of whack, so it shouldn't apply!" which seems to be the thought amongst some in this situation.. I note that Brews was given a chance to step forward during the initial block say "I understand the terms in which I was sanctioned, and I will be requesting to have them modified or removed, but I will abide by them", and it would be likely that there would have been a consensus to unblock at the time. He instead chose to sit out the block (Gwen Gale's statement at the Arb request).
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	:If, after all this is done and dusted, Brews would like to request that the sanctions be modified or dropped, he can certainly do so. Speaking for myself, I'd like to see some time and space between this and the request before I'd view it favorably (the fact that he went and violated it AGAIN recently is not encouraging to me), but that's his option.
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	:Hope you under stand where I'm coming from in this situation. ] (]) 22:04, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
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	== Account creation evasion ==
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			:* The already authorized standard ] for all pages relating to the ] (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, ].
	Mattisse appears to have edited from an account, {{User|Talking image}}, created subsequent to your 1 March block for abuse of multiple accounts, suggesting she has access to another IP address for account creation purposes. I (and no doubt many others) would be grateful if you would follow this up. Thanks, '']'' 21:20, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
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	I'll pass this on to the checkusers, and do some digging myself. Thanks! ] (]) 21:53, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
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	SirFozzie, in my statement on he Gibraltar page I understood this to be a statement of why the case should be seen rather than an opprtunity to provide in depth evidence and that if seen I will be able to go into more detail with diffs. Is that correct? Thanks <span style="font-size:80%;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">]<sup> ]</sup></span> 11:18, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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	:Correct. We're at the stage right now that determines whether we will open a formal case. You don't need to go overkill now, just show us there's a problem that rises to the level of requiring ArbCom intervention. Then, when the case is formally opened, there are pages for submitting evidence, writing up suggested decisions for the ArbCom to look at (the workshop), and a Proposed decision page, which is a page for the ARbitration Committee to write up and vote on the decision on how to handle the case. ] (]) 11:30, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
	::Thanks for the clarification. <span style="font-size:80%;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">]<sup> ]</sup></span> 11:34, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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	Hi, thanks for proposing this motion, which should help clear up what ambiguity remains. Two points for your consideration, though:
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	* "''If consensus in such discussions is hard to judge or unclear, the parties should submit a request for clarification on the Proper page''": Nobody but the parties? The parties to the discussion or to the original case? And, do you really want to do this? As most recipients of arbitral sanctions tend to be people with some sort of clue deficiency, almost every such discussion where the sanction is not overturned is likely to be be appealed to the Committee in this manner, providing the parties with an additional forum for detailing the evils of Arbcom, admins and their ethnic enemies at great length. It might be better to provide that the discussion shall be closed by an uninvolved administrator, and that whoever disagrees with this closure may appeal it to the Committee by e-mail.
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	*"''Administrators who consistently make questionable enforcement administrative actions, or whose actions are consistently overturned by community or Arbitration Committee discussions may be asked to cease performing such activities or be formally restricted from taking such activities''": No objection in substance, but making this the subject of a formal motion may run counter to your intent of getting more administrators to help out with AE. There is a high likelihood that this motion may be used by whoever disagrees with an AE action (generally at least one editor) to raise an additional ruckus on various fora. (And who is it, exactly, who may do the asking or the restricting? The Committee and/or the community?) This may discourage admins, including myself, from continuing to do AE work. If the problems described in your proposal do occur, ArbCom may take such action ''sua sponte'' without first having to pass this motion. Finally, I am not sure whether there have any actual problems so far that would warrant this motion. (If it is my AE actions that have led you to propose this motion, please say so, and I'll be happy to stop doing AE. There's after all much more interesting and less stressful stuff to do.) <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">]</span></small> 17:25, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
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	::Hi Sandstein. Let me respond to your points in the order you bring them in:
	A) It is the general feeling of the Arbitration Committee, or at least several of its members, that we need to make sure that we need to make sure that we need to give every chance for uninvolved users to chime in on actions that have such a high barrier to being reversed. I do understand that any action taken in these areas is.. highly likely, let's say, to highly engage at least one side of any dispute taken to AE. That is why I'm insisting on having a consensus of previously uninvolved users to review actions taken. The ability to take it to the Arbitration Committee is a necessary pressure valve, if a decision is highly debated, and consensus on the action is unclear or hard to judge, then we need to be involved on it, rather than having it create fissures and ill-will in the editing committee.
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	You are correct that parties means the parties in the discussion. I would think that anyone who doesn't like an action, finds consensus at AN/ANI supports the action, and instead tries a ], and brings a clarification request as a third bite at the apple, so to speak, will quickly be ]ed and sent onwards.
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	B) There are at least a few people on the Committee who found the second block of Brews ohare, while the arbcase was going on problematic, at varying levels. It could be argued quite easily that you were involved already with not just Trusilver in the Arbitration case, but Brews ohare as well (after all, it was your initial block that was being discussed in that case).
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	And you're right, very few administrators have stepped forward and done this needed activity. that is the reason I put that personal request in my support vote. But I also get the sense from the Committee and the community that those few administrators who do step forward to do this action not only risk burnout, but as they get involved in trying to fight fires, get so frustrated at seeing the same parties over and over again, that they find their judgment in those areas slipping, without realizing it. ArbCom enforcement remedies can be.. very flexible when need be, as we both know. The Arbitration Committee cannot reasonably foresee how various sanctions, remedies, and alternative sanctions can interact. That is why in general we give administrators a large amount of leeway when working in this area... a couple members of the Committee in discussing this case wanted it clear that working in AE is not a "blank check", so to speak, to make sure that the whole situation is known by all sides.
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	Speaking for myself only, I don't see any problems with your AE actions (other than that of the possibility you were a bit too close to the action on the second block, as I discuss above)
	I hope you don't mind my excessive verbiage. But thank you for your comments!
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	] (]) 06:45, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
			*Additionally, consensus for ] has led to the creation of an ]. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding ].
	:Thank you for your clarification, which I appreciate. To address one point only: my understanding of current policy (]) and practice is that ''administrative'' interactions with another user do not constitute the sort of involvement that requires recusal from further administrative actions. As the policy says, "this is because one of the roles of administrators is precisely to deal with such matters, at length if necessary." Since my only interactions with Brews ohare up to the second block were administrative in nature (blocking him in reply to somebody else's AE request) and since the ongoing arbitration case is (in my and, it seems, in the arbitrators' opinion) about Trusilver's unblock, not about my actions with respect to Brews ohare, I felt no need to recuse myself from further administrative action with respect to Brews ohare. If I am mistaken in this respect, I'd appreciate ArbCom clarification. <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">]</span></small> 07:21, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
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			* ] of the ''St Christopher'' case has been rescinded following a ]. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article ] or related pages from those pages.
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			* ] of the ''Rachel Marsden'' case has been rescinded following a ]. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to ] when they violate ].
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			* ] is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
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			* ] on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Misplaced Pages has been released.
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			== Administrators' newsletter – October 2022 ==
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			] '''Guideline and policy news'''
			* ], 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 ], a ] or an ] for action (as applicable, per ]) instead of the administrator making the block.
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			* ] of the ''Muhammad images'' case will be rescinded 1 November following a ].
			* ] to the deletion RfC remedy in the ] case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
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			* An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their ], and reminded that ArbCom ] in cases of poor account security. You can also use ] (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
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			* Following ], editors indefinitely site-banned by ] will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
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			* The arbitration case '']'' 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 ], ] will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
			* ] at ] about revision deletion and oversight for ] found that {{tq|ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment}}.
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			* ] now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. ({{phab|T324166}})
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			* The '']'' case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in ] have been reminded to be careful about forming {{tq|local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus}}. Regular closers of ] forums were also encouraged to {{tq|note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful}}.
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			* Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand ].
			* {{noping|Xaosflux}}, {{noping|RoySmith}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the ] for the ]. {{noping|BusterD}} is the reserve commissioner.
			* Following ], the contentious topic designation of ''Prem Rawat'' has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
			* Following ], multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the ''Editor conduct in e-cigs articles'', ''Liancourt Rocks'', ''Longevity'', ''Medicine'', ''September 11 conspiracy theories'', and ''Shakespeare authorship question'' cases.
			* Following ], remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the ''Macedonia 2'' case have been rescinded.
			* Following ], remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the ''The Troubles'' case has been amended.
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			* The ] is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in ]. ]
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			* Following a ], the ] has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have ] (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
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			* Following ], the ] has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

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Administrator changes

Eddie891

Angela • Jcw69 • Just Chilling • Philg88 • Viajero

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
• A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
• A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Misplaced Pages Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
• An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Administrator changes John M Wolfson Bduke • Nilfanion • Philosopher • Rspeer • Yunshui Interface administrator changes Ragesoss TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes EdJohnston • Oshwah • Yamla Yunshui [REDACTED] Oversight changes Anarchyte Yunshui

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Administrator changes Hammersoft Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac [REDACTED] Oversight changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Administrator changes Hog Farm Mattflaschen • Nandesuka • Savidan • Wangi

CheckUser changes Berean Hunter • Xeno [REDACTED] Oversight changes Someguy1221 • Xeno

Arbitration

• The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Misplaced Pages has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Misplaced Pages:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
• There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
• Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

• A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
• The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

• The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless

Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus was reached to deprecate Misplaced Pages:Editor assistance.
• Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news

• Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

• After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes Trialpears AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who Lacrimosus → Ikuzaf Interface administrator changes Ragesoss

CheckUser changes AGK • DGG [REDACTED] Oversighter changes AGK

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
• An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

• IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

• The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Administrator changes BusterD Kees08 • Nickshanks • Protonk • Schissel • Ultraexactzz • Wknight94

CheckUser changes TheresNoTime [REDACTED] Oversighter changes TheresNoTime ST47

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

• Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

• Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor • Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

• Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
• A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
• A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
• A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

• The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Administrator changes Blablubbs Alvestrand • Black Falcon • Deathphoenix • Dppowell • Mark Arsten • JGHowes (deceased)

[REDACTED] Oversighter changes Callanecc Mkdw Interface administrator changes Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
• Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news

• DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.

Arbitration

• A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
• Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
• The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

• Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
• The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes Clpo13 Brian0918 • JDoorjam • Karanacs • MrDarcy • Mindspillage Interface administrator changes Evad37

CheckUser changes Dreamy Jazz • Ferret • GeneralNotability • Girth Summit • RoySmith [REDACTED] Oversight changes Dreamy Jazz • LuK3

Guideline and policy news

• Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

• GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

• Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
• The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
• The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes Amalthea • Ihcoyc (deceased) • Kateshortforbob • Kirill Lokshin • Rifleman 82 • Ryan Norton • Wrp103 Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

CheckUser changes Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy [REDACTED] Oversighter changes Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Arbitration

• Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.

Miscellaneous

• The functionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.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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How we will see unregistered users

Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.

We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Administrator changes AustralianRupert • Cimon Avaro • Euryalus • Jehochman • Nunh-huh 28bytes Bureaucrat changes 28bytes

Interface administrator changes Evad37 • Galobtter Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress 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.

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes Modussiccandi BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask

CheckUser changes Callanecc [REDACTED] Oversighter changes Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

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 Misplaced Pages talk:Talk pages project. (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. (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. (T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• 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).

Administrator changes Firefly • Sdrqaz Ad Orientem Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast

Interface administrator changes Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory 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. (T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

• Misplaced Pages: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.

Miscellaneous

• 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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New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes Colin M David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g

CheckUser changes Ks0stm [REDACTED] Oversighter changes Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

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.

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).

Administrator changes Tamzin Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian Sn0wflake → VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (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 Preferences → 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.

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 Misplaced Pages'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).

Administrator changes AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue Bureaucrat changes Lee Vilenski

Interface administrator changes Nihiltres

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• 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).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

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.

Technical news

• 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)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• 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 ⇧ 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).

Administrator changes DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720 Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Misplaced Pages 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.

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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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Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of January 2023.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 08:53, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes ScottishFinnishRadish Staxringold Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched

Interface administrator changes Cyberpower678 CheckUser changes GorillaWarfare

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

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 Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

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.

Miscellaneous

• 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).

Administrator changes

• 
  • Isabelle Belato
  • Whpq
• 
• 
  • Atama
  • Astronautics~enwiki
  • Athaenara
  • Eddie891
  • GraemeL
  • Marianocecowski
  • Natalya
  • Pratyeka
  • SB Johnny

Interface administrator changes

• TheresNoTime
• Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

• 
  • Blablubbs
  • Firefly
• Joe Roe

[REDACTED] Oversight changes

• DGG

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Arbitration

• 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.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• 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 {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

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Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of January 2023.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 01:01, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes

• Eddie891
• Euryalus
• TheresNoTime

• Alex.muller
• Excirial
• RedWordSmith
• Ron Ritzman
• TheresNoTime
• Stephen

Interface administrator changes

TheresNoTime

TheresNoTime

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

[REDACTED] Oversight changes

TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• 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. (T319449)

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 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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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions have been removed.

Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux 03:39, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

[REDACTED] Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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).

Administrator changes Gimmetrow Bjelleklang Bob the Wikipedian Leithp WhisperToMe 100 inactive admins

CheckUser changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim MusikAnimal [REDACTED] Oversighter changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Misplaced Pages.

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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).

Administrator changes The Wordsmith Fuhghettaboutit Spinningspark (deceased)

CheckUser changes Callanecc [REDACTED] Oversighter changes Callanecc

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.

Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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 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).

Administrator changes Aoidh KillerChihuahua

CheckUser changes Ferret

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (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.

Arbitration

• 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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Infobox ideas and changes

In light of recent debate on modifications to Template:Infobox rugby biography, I've expanded it to include other issues that demand attention. As you frequently contribute to rugby union articles, please feel free to respond with your suggestions for improving the most recent discussion on the templates talk page. Kidsoljah (talk) 08:37, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Administrator changes Spicy Ale jrb Dbachmann DGG (deceased) Jimbo Wales

CheckUser changes Jimbo Wales [REDACTED] Oversighter changes Jimbo Wales

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• 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.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• 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).

Administrator changes Ingenuity Ddstretch Prodego Resolute

CheckUser changes Courcelles

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• 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 Misplaced Pages until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Misplaced Pages 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.

Technical news

• 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.

Arbitration

• 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).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (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. (T337431)

Arbitration

• 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).

Administrator changes Pppery Theleekycauldron Dwheeler G.A.S Royalbroil Ssd

CheckUser changes Bradv [REDACTED] Oversighter changes Bradv

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes

• Ganesha811
• JPxG

• Ajpolino
• Lourdes
• Mairi
• RockMFR
• Somno
• WilyD

Beeblebrox → Just Step Sideways

CheckUser changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

[REDACTED] Oversight changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

• Julia W
• Marasmusine
• PBS

CheckUser changes

• Aoidh
• HJ Mitchell
• Sdrqaz
• Spicy
• ToBeFree
• Vanamonde93
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

[REDACTED] Oversighter changes

• Aoidh
• Firefly
• Sdrqaz
• ToBeFree
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes Sdkb The Night Watch East718 Isabelle Belato Mzajac Staecker Stan Shebs Sugarfish Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Misplaced Pages.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

[REDACTED] Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Misplaced Pages. 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

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

[REDACTED] Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

[REDACTED] Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which 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.

Arbitration

• 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 ("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.

Miscellaneous

• 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

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• 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 Misplaced Pages 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.

Arbitration

• 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).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

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Nomination of Stanford Super Series for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Stanford Super Series is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Stanford Super Series until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 03:41, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

[REDACTED] Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• 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. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and 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.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• 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 Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• 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.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

[REDACTED] Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, Misplaced Pages:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

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